new delhi hours before it was scheduled to go on air delhi high court stayed the telecast of bindas bol on sudarshan tv on friday in a promo the tv channel had described the programme as a big expose on the conspiracy to infiltrate muslims into government service the central government through the ministry of information and broadcasting informed the high court that it had received numerous complaints against the show scheduled to air at 8pm on friday and had issued a notice to the channelthe interim stay came when the high court heard a petition filed by jamia millia islamia students seeking the urgent intervention of the court contending that the programme sought to defame attack and incite hatred against the university its alumni and the muslim community at large justice navin chawla while staying the broadcast issued notices to the centre sudarshan tv and its editorinchief suresh chavhanke and posted the matter for further hearing on september 7in their plea current and former jamia students argued that the proposed broadcast presented a clear danger to the security of the petitioners as well as that of other students and alumni of the institution since the show targeted students from jamia who had cleared the civil services exam in 2020 the plea said it left them and the muslim community open to the threat of violence including the possibility of lynchingjustice chawla saw a video clip of the promo and noted in the order that having considered the submission made till the next hearing respondents nos 3 and 4 sudarshan tv and chavhanke are restrained from telecasting the programme titled bindas bol scheduled to be telecast at 8pm todaythe high court said the ib ministry should in the meantime decide on the notice issued to the tv channel and place its decision before the courtmeanwhile a supreme court bench of justices d y chandrachud and k m joseph desisted from imposing a prebroadcast injunction on sudarshan tv from telecasting the programme saying that it couldnt pass such an order on the basis of an unverified transcript of a fortynine second clipunlike in the high court where the centres lawyer was present to inform the court bout the notice the ib ministry had issued to the news channel there was no lawyer representing the government in the supreme courtthe bench however said the petition raised significant issues that had a bearing on the protection of constitutional rights the bench said there should be a debate on selfregulation in the indian media