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‘The Hindu’ calls gag order on 49 media organisations in Tejasvi Surya case “poll-time censorship”; could set precedent to prevent media from doing its job

The Hindu has an editorial on the open-ended “temporary injunction” obtained by BJP’s Bangalore South candidate, Tejasvi Surya against 49 media organisations. It says the pre-publication gag order is contrary to the law and the Constitution; violative of free speech; and authorises prior restraint. “Even if the argument is that the order only prevents ‘defamatory’…