Rohit Ranjan again requested the Supreme Court for an urgent hearing on his petition.

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New Delhi:

The Supreme Court on Thursday said the plea of ​​a news channel anchor seeking to club all similar cases together and seeking protection from punitive action for the alleged offence, may be listed on Friday. .

Facing FIRs in some states for circulating a news story showing senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's statement in a wrong context, a news channel anchor Rohit Ranjan approached the Supreme Court for his Again requested for urgent hearing on the petition.

Justice Indira Banerjee and Justice J.

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Maheshwari's vacation bench said it is "waiting for listing by the Chief Justice of India". 

"It is awaited to be listed by the Chief Justice," the bench said.

The matter may not be given to us for hearing.

Senior advocate Siddharth Luthra, appearing for the TV anchor, said that the petition was directed to be listed for hearing today but it has not been placed in the list of scheduled business.

He requested to refer it to another bench on Friday.

The bench said, "We see.

The documents of the case are with the CJI... List the matter for tomorrow after the approval of the Chief Justice of India.

FIRs have been registered against TV anchor Ranjan in some states for allegedly circulating a tampered video of Rahul Gandhi's statement.

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court had agreed to hear the anchor's petition on Thursday.

It is worth noting that on Tuesday, a team of Chhattisgarh Police had reached Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh to arrest Rohit Ranjan from his house, but he was arrested by Noida Police and released on bail in the night.

Earlier, on July 2, Ranjan had apologized for linking Gandhi's statement "in the wrong context" to the Udaipur massacre in his TV program.

The program was aired a day before this.

Ranjan had tweeted, "Rahul Gandhi's statement in our show DNA went in the wrong context by linking it to the Udaipur incident.

This was a human error, for which our team apologizes.

We do apologize for this."

The petition has sought protection for the journalist, his family members and his associates associated with the programme.

"The present writ petition is being filed under Article 32 of the Constitution seeking quashing/consolidation of almost identical criminal complaints.

FIRs have been registered against the petitioner across the country.

The petitioner has requested for protection from punitive action during the pendency of the present petition.

It said, "Ranjan hosted an event on 'Zee News' on July 1, 2022.

The news show inadvertently misrepresented some of the quotes and the error was quickly corrected.

An unconditional apology was made by the petitioner and Zee News and the news show was withdrawn even before any FIR and complaint was registered.

However, subsequently, multiple FIRs and complaints have been registered against the petitioner under different provisions of law for the same incident, the petition said.

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