The Supreme Court on Friday granted Zee News editor Rajnish Ahuja protection from arrest in a case over a broadcast in which anchor Rohit Ranjan claimed that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi had condoned the killing of a tailor in Udaipur.
A bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and JB Pardiwala said, “There shall be no coercive action against the editor with respect to the FIRs registered or the future ones.” The bench also directed the court’s registry to tag the plea with Ranjan’s petition in the same matter.
