New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Thursday refused to lift the ban to broadcast Nirbhaya Documentary 'India's daughter' on December 16, 2012 gangrape incident. The PIL filed by lawyer Vibhor Anand sought lifting of the ban on the telecast of the documentary.
The High Court has re-notified the matter to the next bench. The next hearing in the case is on Wednesday.
The court has made two observations - the ban on documentary is not illegal as it is applicable for the state to impose a ban in exceptional cases. The ban cannot be lifted as the case is still going on in Supreme Court and airing it may influence the judicial process.
The documentary made by British filmmaker Leslee Udwin features the interview of one of the convicts, Mukesh Singh, who held girls more responsible than boys for the rape.
The Information and Broadcasting Ministry has also issued an advisory to all television channels to not broadcast the documentary on the victim.
The film is about the 23-year-old physiotherapist who was brutally gangraped by six men in a moving bus on December 16, 2012 in the national capital. Brutally assaulted, the victim succumbed to her injuries on December 29, 2012.
Mukesh, along with three others, was convicted and sentenced to death in September 2013 for the gangrape and murder of the 23-year-old victim.
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