The Supreme Court on Thursday fixed on May 4 a hearing in a case involving the government’s non-renewal of security clearance to Kerala-based news and current affairs TV channel Media One “on the basis of intelligence inputs sensitive and secretive in nature”.
A Bench led by Justice D.Y. Chandrachud stayed the telecast ban on March 15 and asked the government to file its counter affidavit. The court had kept open the issue whether the internal government files, based on which the media company’s security clearance was not renewed in an order on January 31, 2022, ought to be shared with the media company.
