“The Union Territory has no competence not it is under the control of the Union Home Ministry by itself. The advertisement policy or the publication of any newspaper in any part of the country is controlled by the Fundamental Rights applicable to entire India including all the Union Territories. The Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir has issued a directive, ‘It (policy) addresses the ambiguities in the earlier advertisement policy and ensures that different kinds of media are given due consideration to keep pace with the changing demands of present times’. This is in total violation of Fundamental Rights including freedom of press and no single State or Union Territory shall claim any exclusive authority to damn any portion of Fundamental Rights. This kind of Ordinance cannot be issued or applied by the Parliament of India even which has been made applicable in the Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir since 2nd June, 2020”.
This is a statement made by Prof. Bhim Singh, Chief Patron of J&K National Panthers Party, Senior Advocate in the Supreme Court of India and Executive Chairman of State Legal Aid Committee, Jammu & Kashmir. He said there are sufficient laws to control the media within the Constitution and Penal Code. There cannot be separate media laws for a Union Territory and rest of the country. Such drastic press control laws were not used during emergency in 1975. Supreme Court in its judgment has strictly maintained that freedom of press cannot be controlled by draconian laws.
Prof. Bhim Singh urged the President of India to use his executive and legislative authority to direct the Lt. Governor of the Union Territory to withdraw this kind of drastic law which cannot be applied in a Union Territory like Jammu & Kashmir to curb the freedom of press and the Fundamental Rights enshrined in Chapter-III of the Indian Constitution. He said that this so called ‘New Media Policy’ is totally illegal, improper, unconstitutional & violative of the Fundamental Rights enshrined in the Constitution of India which stand applicable in respect of Jammu & Kashmir.
“The Union Territory has no competence not it is under the control of the Union Home Ministry by itself. The advertisement policy or the publication of any newspaper in any part of the country is controlled by the Fundamental Rights applicable to entire India including all the Union Territories. The Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir has issued a directive, ‘It (policy) addresses the ambiguities in the earlier advertisement policy and ensures that different kinds of media are given due consideration to keep pace with the changing demands of present times’. This is in total violation of Fundamental Rights including freedom of press and no single State or Union Territory shall claim any exclusive authority to damn any portion of Fundamental Rights. This kind of Ordinance cannot be issued or applied by the Parliament of India even which has been made applicable in the Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir since 2nd June, 2020”.
This is a statement made by Prof. Bhim Singh, Chief Patron of J&K National Panthers Party, Senior Advocate in the Supreme Court of India and Executive Chairman of State Legal Aid Committee, Jammu & Kashmir. He said there are sufficient laws to control the media within the Constitution and Penal Code. There cannot be separate media laws for a Union Territory and rest of the country. Such drastic press control laws were not used during emergency in 1975. Supreme Court in its judgment has strictly maintained that freedom of press cannot be controlled by draconian laws.
Prof. Bhim Singh urged the President of India to use his executive and legislative authority to direct the Lt. Governor of the Union Territory to withdraw this kind of drastic law which cannot be applied in a Union Territory like Jammu & Kashmir to curb the freedom of press and the Fundamental Rights enshrined in Chapter-III of the Indian Constitution. He said that this so called ‘New Media Policy’ is totally illegal, improper, unconstitutional & violative of the Fundamental Rights enshrined in the Constitution of India which stand applicable in respect of Jammu & Kashmir.
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