Chief Justice of India N V Ramana Saturday, while listing troubles dealing with the present-day judiciary, stated that a number of media organizations in the us of a have been strolling “kangaroo courts… on problems even skilled judges discover hard to figure out on”.
Addressing an event at the National University of Study & Research in Law in Ranchi, the CJI said:
“Ill-informed and agenda-driven debates on issues involving justice shipping are proving to be hazardous to the fitness of democracy. Biased views being propagated by way of media are affecting the people, weakening democracy, and harming the system. In this process, justice shipping gets adversely affected.”
He introduced that the media was taking democracy backwards through overstepping and breaching their responsibilities. “Print media nevertheless has positive degree of accountability. Whereas, digital media has zero accountability as what it suggests vanishes into thin year. Still worse is social media,” the CJI said.
