Karnataka HC Sets Aside Gag Order Favouring BJP’s Tejasvi Surya

Surya is BJP’s candidate from the Bangalore South constituency in the Lok Sabha elections.

Karnataka High Court on Friday, 12 April, in response to a PIL, has reportedly stated that media outlets are not prevented from publishing content, except those which are defamatory in nature against BJP leader Tejasvi Surya.

The PIL was filed by Democratic Reforms Organisation against an injunction order passed by the Bangalore City Civil Court, which barred above 40 media houses from “publishing defamatory and derogatory publications” against him.