Empty speculation

IN Media Watch Briefs | 13/09/2011

The Supreme Court asked the trial to commence in a local court in Gujarat. The media knew some details of the SIT report but none is the wiser on the amicus curiae's in the Modi case. And yet why did it let the arguments that Modi had got a clean chit and the counters that he did not, flow? Why did it not tell the fact and stop the shadow boxing saying it was speculative? To fill news space and air time?

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