A city court has dismissed a complaint of a news channel's cameraperson against Congress MP Naveen Jindal for allegedly hurting him and attempting to damage his camera at a Press conference last year.
The court rejected the complaint, saying video clipping of the alleged incident, produced by complainant Shiv Shankar Yadav, does not show that he was slapped and the visuals only revealed that he was pushed by Jindal.
“If carefully observed, the video clipping does not depict that complainant (Yadav) was slapped at all or that the camera was deliberately attempted to be destroyed. All that is revealed from the video is that the accused (Jindal) pushed the complainant,” Metropolitan Magistrate Vijeta Singh said.
“Every individual has a right whether or not to be covered by the media and the instance of the like under consideration is a professional hazard of the complainant,” the court said. Yadav, in his complaint, said that teh incident took place in le Meridien Hotel on September 10, 2012, where he was at a conference with a colleague.