, || High Court green signal to Murder ||
The Telangana High Court on Friday (06th November) gave a green signal for the release of Ram Gopal Varma's Telugu film 'Murder' which is based on the real-life incident, wherein a Dalit youth, Pranay Perumalla was assassinated in 2018 in broad daylight by killers, hired by his father in law (belonging to an upper caste), in an alleged hate crime.
The Bench of Justice M. S. Ramachandra Rao and Justice T.Amarnath Goud was hearing the appeal filed by Ram Gopal Varma and others (Appellants/Defendants), challenging the 24th August's order of the Nalgonda court stalling the release of the film and also the promo of the film on YouTube.
The High Court, in its order, noted,
"The events which have occurred in her life i.e., the alleged murder of her husband are admitted by her to be in the public domain. The counsel for the respondent did not deny that there was also a wide range of reporting in the local newspapers and cable TV channels about these events. Thus, this information was in the public domain."
Further, the Court said,
"In our view, it cannot, therefore, be said that the events which have occurred in the life of the respondent are in that sense unique to her and to her family alone."
The Court observed that a person undoubtedly has a right to privacy in relation to her family, marriage, procreation, motherhood and child-bearing and none can publish anything concerned with these matters without his/her consent.
Yet, the Court said,
"There is an exception to the said rule i.e., that any publication concerning these aspects would become unobjectionable if such publication is based upon public records including court records."
In other words, the Court said that once the matter becomes a matter of public record, the right to privacy is no longer subsisting and it becomes a legitimate subject for comment for press and media among others.
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, || High Court green signal to Murder || The Telangana High Court on Friday (06th November) gave a green signal for the release of Ram Gopal Varma's Telugu film 'Murder' which is based on the real-life incident, wherein a Dalit youth, Pranay Perumalla was assassinated in 2018 in broad daylight by killers, hired by his father in law (belonging to an upper caste), in an alleged hate crime. The Bench of Justice M. S. Ramachandra Rao and Justice T.Amarnath Goud was hearing the appeal filed by Ram Gopal Varma and others (Appellants/Defendants), challenging the 24th August's order of the Nalgonda court stalling the release of the film and also the promo of the film on YouTube. The High Court, in its order, noted, "The events which have occurred in her life i.e., the alleged murder of her husband are admitted by her to be in the public domain. The counsel for the respondent did not deny that there was also a wide range of reporting in the local newspapers and cable TV channels about these events. Thus, this information was in the public domain." Further, the Court said, "In our view, it cannot, therefore, be said that the events which have occurred in the life of the respondent are in that sense unique to her and to her family alone." The Court observed that a person undoubtedly has a right to privacy in relation to her family, marriage, procreation, motherhood and child-bearing and none can publish anything concerned with these matters without his/her consent. Yet, the Court said, "There is an exception to the said rule i.e., that any publication concerning these aspects would become unobjectionable if such publication is based upon public records including court records." In other words, the Court said that once the matter becomes a matter of public record, the right to privacy is no longer subsisting and it becomes a legitimate subject for comment for press and media among others.