Ban on Dec 16 rapist interview broadcast to continue

A court here on Wednesday directed continuation of the ban on broadcasting a documentary based on an interview with a convict in the December 16 Delhi gang-rape case.

Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sanjay Khanagwal said: "Order dated March 3 of Duty Metropolitan Magistrate Puneet Pahwa perused. Be kept on record."

He also ordered that the ban on broadcasting the documentary would continue "till further orders".

The court order came after police informed it that the duty magistrate on Tuesday had passed a restraining order on publishing, telecasting, and uploading the interview of one of the convicts in December 16 gangrape case.

Police had requested the court to restrain the publishing, transmitting, telecasting of the interview and its uploading on the Internet.

The police said in the plea that the convict had made derogatory remarks against women in the interview which might lead to widespread public outcry and serious law and order problem as happened in the aftermath of December 16 gangrape.

A physiotherapy student was raped and assaulted with an iron rod after she was tricked into boarding an unregistered private bus to go home after watching a movie with a male friend on December 16, 2013.

Her male companion was badly beaten up and could not come to her rescue when she was assaulted in the bus. The two were later dumped naked and bleeding on the roadside.

The woman was airlifted to a Singapore hospital for treatment where she died -- 13 days after the assault -- of the injuries inflicted upon her.

The documentary features interview of Mukesh Singh among others. Singh is one of the convicts in the December 16 gang rape case. He, along with three other attackers, was convicted and sentenced to death last year.