<p>The Delhi High Court today refused to give urgent hearing to a PIL seeking lifting of the ban on telecast of a controversial documentary featuring an interview of one of the four convicts in the December 16 gangrape case.<br /></p>.<p>A bench of justices B D Ahmed and Vibhu Bakhru said there is no so urgency in the matter and it will be heard on Wednesday (March 11).<br />"It will be listed on Wednesday. Nothing so important, that it needs to be heard today," the court said.<br /><br />The court's response came after two law students -- Arun Menon and Kritika Padode -- in their public interest litigation (PIL) sought urgent hearing, saying the ban on the documentary is a clear violation of their fundamental rights under Article 19 of the Indian Constitution.<br /><br />The duo approached the high court after a trial court on March 4 had banned until further orders the broadcast of the interview of December 16, 2012 gangrape convict Mukesh Singh, which was allegedly conducted in July 2013 inside Tihar jail here.<br /><br />Earlier, a trial court had restrained the media from broadcasting or publishing the interview of Mukesh Singh after the Delhi police moved court for a restraining order against his interview.<br /><br />The Information and Broadcasting Ministry has also issued an advisory to all television channels to not broadcast the documentary on the victim.<br /><br />The government has also sought an explanation from Tihar jail authorities over how the convict was interviewed while being in judicial custody.<br /><br />A similar petition was filed last week, by a law student, who has sought lifting of the ban on the ground that it is "nothing but a honest look at the mind and mindset of one of the convicted rapists of the young woman".<br /><br />Today's plea, which was mentioned before the bench by advocate Naman Joshi also sought direction to the Bar Council of India to expedite action against the two lawyer -- advocate A P Singh and M L Sharma -- who had allegedly made derogatory anti-women remarks in the documentary.</p>
<p>The Delhi High Court today refused to give urgent hearing to a PIL seeking lifting of the ban on telecast of a controversial documentary featuring an interview of one of the four convicts in the December 16 gangrape case.<br /></p>.<p>A bench of justices B D Ahmed and Vibhu Bakhru said there is no so urgency in the matter and it will be heard on Wednesday (March 11).<br />"It will be listed on Wednesday. Nothing so important, that it needs to be heard today," the court said.<br /><br />The court's response came after two law students -- Arun Menon and Kritika Padode -- in their public interest litigation (PIL) sought urgent hearing, saying the ban on the documentary is a clear violation of their fundamental rights under Article 19 of the Indian Constitution.<br /><br />The duo approached the high court after a trial court on March 4 had banned until further orders the broadcast of the interview of December 16, 2012 gangrape convict Mukesh Singh, which was allegedly conducted in July 2013 inside Tihar jail here.<br /><br />Earlier, a trial court had restrained the media from broadcasting or publishing the interview of Mukesh Singh after the Delhi police moved court for a restraining order against his interview.<br /><br />The Information and Broadcasting Ministry has also issued an advisory to all television channels to not broadcast the documentary on the victim.<br /><br />The government has also sought an explanation from Tihar jail authorities over how the convict was interviewed while being in judicial custody.<br /><br />A similar petition was filed last week, by a law student, who has sought lifting of the ban on the ground that it is "nothing but a honest look at the mind and mindset of one of the convicted rapists of the young woman".<br /><br />Today's plea, which was mentioned before the bench by advocate Naman Joshi also sought direction to the Bar Council of India to expedite action against the two lawyer -- advocate A P Singh and M L Sharma -- who had allegedly made derogatory anti-women remarks in the documentary.</p>