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Delhi High Court has ordered anchor Rajdeep Sardesai and India Today to “take down” a video posted by Sardesai on X, which purportedly shows BJP spokesperson Shazia Ilmi allegedly “abusing” a video journalist from the channel, Bar and Bench reported. The court said the video must be removed for interim…

The Supreme Court has dropped the contempt of court charges against Patanjali Ayurved and its founders Baba Ramdev and Acharya Balkrishna, Bar and Bench reported.

BJP spokesperson Shazia Ilmi has lodged a defamation case against India Today anchor Rajdeep Sardesai over a video posted by him on social media, accusing Ilmi of “abusing” the channel’s video journalist, Bar and Bench reported.  

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has asked the Punjab DGP to submit data on the criminal cases registered after gangster Lawrence Bishnoi’s interview with ABP News was broadcast last year, Bar and Bench reported.

The Supreme Court has suggested that the Ayush ministry should create a centralised dashboard to publicise and track the progress of complaints filed against misleading advertisements on medicinal or allied healthcare products, Bar and Bench reported.

The Kerala High Court has held that cartoonists are part and parcel of the press and are entitled to freedom of expression guaranteed under Article 19(1)(a) of the Constitution of India, Bar and Bench reported. 

The Supreme Court has ordered the interim release of YouTuber Savukku Shankar, who has been detained as a “goonda” since May by the Chennai Police, Bar and Bench reported.

Kerala High Court has quashed criminal proceedings against two journalists over a “sting operation” in connection with the alleged 2013 solar panel scam, Bar and Bench reported.   

Noting that it “looks like a plain case of political vendetta”, the Supreme Court has granted interim relief to Kannada news channel Power TV and its affiliate Mitcoin Infrastructure by vacating an interim stay on the channel's broadcasts, Bar and Bench reported.

X Corp, formerly Twitter, told the Delhi High Court that the videos posted by Congress leaders of IndiaTV chief Rajat Sharma allegedly abusing its spokesperson Ragini Nayak on live television are “not edited or fake”, Bar and Bench reported.

The Supreme Court has granted interim bail to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a money laundering case that was filed by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with the excise policy case, Bar and Bench reported.