Right to reputation: India

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Everyone has a right to reputation: SC

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

The Times of India 2013/08/15

New Delhi: Everyone has a right to reputation, the Supreme Court observed on Wednesday, while restraining the counsel of an NGO from mentioning the names of persons figuring in the Niira Radia tapes.

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday said everyone had a right to reputation and restrained an NGO’s counsel from mentioning names of persons figuring in the Niira Radia tapes, a cache of intercepted telephone conversations between the former corporate lobbyist and politicians, industrialists, journalists and others.

When counsel Prashant Bhushan wanted to refer to Radia’s links in the 2G scam case, the court said, “Everyone has a right to reputation till a competent court gives a verdict.” After the Radia tapes had surfaced in the public domain, then Tata group chairman Ratan Tata moved the SC complaining of breach of his right to privacy and sought a probe into the leak of intercepted private conversations.

A bench of Justices G S Singhvi and V Gopala Gowda made the observation as it restrained advocate Prashant Bhushan, appearing for NGO ‘Centre for Public Interest Litigation’, from referring to Radia’s links with industrial houses and a bureaucrat-turned-politician.

“ Everyone has a right to reputation till a competent court gives a verdict,” the bench said.

Bhushan had drawn the court’s attention to two conversations, one relating to Radia’s links with a big business house, and another relating to a conversation on how to manage a debate in Parliament, and said the court-appointed expert team had not looked into them.

He requested the court that the CBI should look into these two conversations and investigate the “clear-cut criminality” reflected in them.

After the Radia tapes surfaced in the public domain, the then chairman of Tata group Ratan Tata had moved the Supreme Court complaining of serious breach of his right to privacy. He had sought an inquiry into the leak of intercepted private conversations which the law required to be kept secret.