A Gurugram court has rejected anticipatory bail plea moved by journalist Chitra Tripathi in a POCSO case. The senior journalist is facing an arrest warrant for publishing a news allegedly related to Asaram Bapu sexual assault case.
The court issued an arrest warrant against the journalist earlier this month after it rejected her bail plea and she failed to appear in court in person. Tripathi is facing charges under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) for allegedly airing news about a 10-year-old girl in connection with the Asaram Bapu case.
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The court observed the anticipatory bail plea moved by Tripathi was not maintainable as she was already facing an arrest warrant. The court had also ordered police officer to appear in person before it if the arrest warrant is not executed by November 30.
According to Live Law, Tripathi is accused of airing 'morphed, edited and obscene' videos of a 10-year-old girl and her family and linking the same to a sexual assault case against godman Bapu.
Tripathi has been charged under sections 120B (criminal conspiracy), 469 and 471 (forgery) IPC; sections 67B (abusing children online) and 67 (publishing or transmitting sexually explicit content) IT Act; and sections 23 (disclosure of identity of a child by the media) and 13C (indecent or obscene representation of a child) of the POCSO Act, Live Law reported.
