KOLKATA: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee moved a Calcutta excessive court docket division bench Friday in opposition to a single-bench order restraining her from making “defamatory and incorrect statements” in opposition to governor C V Ananda Bose “in publications or social media platforms” until Aug 14, arguing that “justifiable criticism” was not libel and that the order fully curbed her basic proper to free speech.
She stated Justice Krishna Rao’s order, handed at pre-trial stage, had “extreme ramifications” and was a “gag order” that had a “chilling impact” on her freedom of speech and expression, each individually and as a public consultant.
Banerjee argued that the “order, if allowed to proceed, shall have impact of fettering free speech by an individual holding public workplace on grounds of violation of non-public rights”. She stated her statements “weren’t solely true however a mere reiteration of considerations of varied girls which had been dropped at her discover”. She added that expenses in opposition to Bose had been already within the public area.
She stated Justice Krishna Rao’s order, handed at pre-trial stage, had “extreme ramifications” and was a “gag order” that had a “chilling impact” on her freedom of speech and expression, each individually and as a public consultant.
Banerjee argued that the “order, if allowed to proceed, shall have impact of fettering free speech by an individual holding public workplace on grounds of violation of non-public rights”. She stated her statements “weren’t solely true however a mere reiteration of considerations of varied girls which had been dropped at her discover”. She added that expenses in opposition to Bose had been already within the public area.
