Rahul Gandhi Video: Supreme Court To Hear Zee News Anchor's Plea Today

News anchor Rohit Ranjan has been granted protection against coercive action in the matter.

The Supreme Court agreed to hear on Friday a plea of an editor of a TV news channel challenging the summons issued to him for playing a doctored clip of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi during the telecast of a programme on July 1.

A bench comprising Chief Justice N V Ramana and Justices Krishna Murari and Hima Kohli was urged by senior lawyer Siddhartha Dave that the matter be listed urgently as the editor of the channel has not been protected.

He noted that the news anchor (Rohit Ranjan) of the channel has been granted protection against coercive action in the matter.

The bench agreed to hear the plea on Friday.