News anchor Rohit Ranjan urges SC to list his plea for hearing

Television news anchor Rohit Ranjan who has been facing multiple FIRs filed against him in connection with a misleading show on Thursday urged the Supreme Court to list an urgent hearing of his plea seeking protection from coercive measuresSenior advocate Siddharth Luthra submitted before a vacation bench of Justices Indira Banerjee and JK Maheshwari that his plea has been filed but not listed today for hearingThe bench said that the matter has not been assigned and case files are with the Chief Justice of IndiaAlso Read Rahul Gandhi video Chhattisgarh Police summon news anchor Rohit Ranjan to Raipur for probeIn the plea filed through law firm Karanjawala and Co the petitioner Rohit Ranjan has sought various reliefs including quashing of FIRs filed against him or clubbing of multiple FIRs lodged against himOn Wednesday the Supreme Court agreed to hear journalist Rohit Ranjans plea todayLuthra mentioned Ranjans plea before the Supreme Court on Wednesday and apprised the court that he was arrested on Tuesday by Noida Police and later released on bail and now the Chattisgarh police want to arrest himLuthra has said that the matter needs an urgent hearing as Ranjan will be in repeated custody due to multiple FIRs lodged against himHe has informed the court that he does a show in which there was a mistake and he later apologized for it but multiple FIRs were filed against himChhattisgarh Police on Tuesday reached the television channel news anchors residence in Ghaziabad Uttar Pradesh after an FIR was registered against him following the broadcast of a misleading video on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for which the channel had issued an apologyThe anchor Rohit Ranjan however was taken into custody by Noida Police after he took to Twitter earlier and posted Chhattisgarh Police is standing outside my house to arrest me without informing the local police is it legalHe tagged Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath and SSP Ghaziabad and ADG Zone Lucknow in the tweetResponding to Ranjans tweet the Raipur Police Chhatisgarh posted on its Twitter handle There is no such rule to inform Still now they are informed The police team has shown you the courts warrant of arrest You should in fact cooperate join in the investigation and put your defence in courtMeanwhile ADCP Noida said In the course of an investigation registered at police station Sector 20 a person named Rohit Ranjan working in a news channel is being questionedRanjan on his show said In our show DNA Rahul Gandhis statement was taken in the wrong context by linking it to the Udaipur incident it was a human error for which our team apologisesThe Congress filed a complaint in Raipur against Ranjan for allegedly running a doctored video of Rahul GandhiAccording to reports the FIR filed by Congress said that Rohit Ranjan intentionally linked Rahul Gandhis statements on the vandalization of his office to the Udaipur incident in an attempt to incite public sentimentsCongress MP Rahul Gandhi while referring to the attack on his Wayanad office had said The children who did this have acted in an irresponsible way They are kids forgive themThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever