mumbai bombay high courts aurangabad bench has issued additional guidelines to restrain print and electronic media as well as people using social media such as whatsapp facebook twitter and the internet from publishing information that could directly or indirectly disclose a rape survivors identity hc has directed that in cases of rape registered under the indian penal code and offences under protection of children from sexual offences act pocso the media and those using the social media should not publish the names of the parents or relatives of the survivor or the accuseds relation with him or her or the accused as well as the survivors residential occupational or work address and the village in which they reside in it has restrained publication of details of the occupation of the parents or other relations of the survivor or any other relative in such a manner that he or she can be identified a bench of justices t v nalawade and m g sewlikar listed the guidelines while disposing a public interest litigation pil filed by the mother of a rape survivor the bench said if the individual is a student the name of the school or college or any other educational institution or private coaching class or classes which he or she has joined for pursuing her hobbies such as music drawing dance stitching cooking etc and the family background should not be mentioned in articles or posts hc said it was passing these additional guidelines as despite supreme courts december 11 2018 directions in a petition by nipun saxena against even remotely identifying rape survivors as well as penal provisions under ipc section 228 a the rules are flouted it noted a news item of a 2011 kidnap and rape case in local publications before it clearly indicates that the identity of the victim is established though the name of the accused and the name of the victim is not mentionedhc also passed directions to trial courts and police officers it said it is noticed that while framing of charges recording the evidence recording the statement of the accused under section 313 of the code of criminal procedure the name of the victim is disclosedit directed special trial courts under provisions of pocso act 2012 therefore to conceal the name of the survivor by referring to him or her with some abbreviation or letters such as x while framing charges recording statements or evidence hc also directed that police should avoid naming survivors under pocso act and refer to them as x in remand reports a d ostwal amicus curiae in the matter had contended the electronic media holds interviews of the victim or hisher relations he said though care is taken to blur the face identity can be disclosed by the survivors voice after hearing prosecutor s j salgare hc in its january 19 judgement said we hope that the electronic media will show restraint in holding interviews of the victims andor their relatives and would take all