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\n\nThe Supreme Court, on Thursday, sought responses from the Centre and others on a plea seeking framing of guidelines governing interaction of police and law-enforcement authorities with journalists during protests and crowd control operations.
\n\nThe apex court was hearing a plea which claimed that several journalists, including women media professionals, were assaulted and treated badly by the police while covering the protests in Delhi against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.
\n\n"We would like to lay down guidelines," a bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi observed after senior advocate Indira Jaising, appearing for the petitioner, said there has to be a national protocol on this.
\n\nThe bench directed that no coercive action be taken against a woman journalist, against whom a case has been filed by a Delhi Police officer alleging casteist remarks and public humiliation against him during a protest near Jantar Mantar here.
\n\nJaising argued that the woman journalist was molested by a police officer but no FIR has been lodged to date on her complaint.
\n\nThe bench observed that allegations made in the complaint of the…
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