Court lifts media ban on Delhi gang-rape trial: lawyer

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An Indian court overturned a gagging order on Friday preventing media access to the trial of 4 men charged with gang-raping a student on a bus in New Delhi last December, a prosecutor says

GANG RAPE PROTESTS. Indian activists from the women's wing of the Communist Party of India- Marxist (CPI-M) hold placards during a protest against the gang rape and murder of a student in the Indian captial, New Delhi, in Siliguri on January 8, 2013. Five men appeared in court for the first time on January 7, to face charges over the murder and gang-rape of a 23-year-old student in New Delhi amid chaotic scenes that forced the hearing behind closed doors. AFP Photo/Diptendu Dutta

NEW DELHI, India – An Indian court overturned a gagging order on Friday, March 22, preventing media access to the trial of 4 men charged with gang-raping a student on a bus in New Delhi last December, a prosecutor said.

“The Delhi High Court has put safeguards in place and allowed one journalist from an accredited national news daily to sit in court proceedings of the December 16 gang-rape case,” Dayan Krishnan, the special prosecutor in the trial, told AFP.

“We are fine with that because of the safeguards.

“The court has also put restrictions on what can be reported by the journalist. They cannot report anything about the victim or her family, which is what we were worried about,” Krishnan explained. – Rappler.com

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