CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF LAWS RELATING TO ELECTRONIC MEDIA IN INDIA
Abstract
The last decade of the last millennium saw the emergence of a new revolution – revolution of information technology. There are several legislations in India, but there is no single legislation is available where the term “Media” and “Electronic Media” has been defined. In the case Ministry of Information and Broadcasting v. Bangal Cricket Association[1], Hon’ble Supreme Court observed that it is the demand of time vis-à-vis citizens of this Country to make a law relating to the electronic media. As we all are living in the 21st century and if we talk about the term media, so the primary function or duty of the media is to communicate the information, it does not matter in which form media communicate the information across the globe. We are very much familiar with the term “Internet”, and with the help of internet everyone can circulate any type of information within a fraction of second, and the information comes in open space and without any physical boundaries of any country. It is very true that there is no universally accepted definition of social media and electronic media as electronic media is a part of social media.
With the emergence of socialmedia, it has been demonstrated that, there are series of legal and complicated issues pertaining to it and our administration of criminal justice system is not as much sensitized on these issues especially when we talk about the territorial jurisdiction and nature of crime.
In this current article the researcher will try to highlight issues pertaining to misuse of information circulated by the social media with special reference to electronic media with probable remedies under the statute books with suggestions.
