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The disruption caused by Covid-19 is within everyone’s reach. Businesses in all sectors have been severely affected as a result of the varying versions of lockdown orders issued from time to time by central and state governments. Since all businesses continue to strive to conserve cash and reduce costs, one of the main payments that all businesses are actively trying to avoid or minimize exposure to is rental payments. Two of the most obvious questions in this regard are:

A Public Interest Litigation case known as Chandra Rajkumari v. Commissioner of Police Hyderabad was instituted by a group of women organizations to condemn and oppose the proposed holding of a beauty competition ‘Miss Andhra Personality’ by one such woman organization. The petitioners were the following women associations – A. P. Mahila Samakhya, All India Mahila Samskrithika Sangam (AIMSS), Progressive Organization for Women (POW), and one Maharaja Sir Kishen Pershad Foundation. The government of Andhra Pradesh, Police Commissioner and Prerana Women Organization constituted the respondents.

“The Union Government has launched COVID-19 FOOD EMERGENCY. Evoking Article 420 of the Constitution of India, the government has ordered all the groceries, restaurants, hotels, fast food outlets, vegetable markets and neighbourhood shop to be closed for an indefinite period”

The basic goal of journalism is to serve the individuals with the news and data on public matters in a reasonable, precise, impartial, modest way and language. Media has the power to ensure that the issues and grievances of the different sections of the society are reached to the government.  The tragic news of the demise of Bollywood actor, Sushant Singh Rajput was trailed by a commotion for the lamentable way the news was communicated by different conventional news channels of the nation. It shows the inhumane desire for constant media coverage in degrading ways only for TRPs. The unexpected loss of a young brilliant actor was not desensitizing enough; Indian media aggravated it with their harsh inclusion of the matter. A father who had quite recently lost his young child had a mic pushed into his face. Pictures of Sushant’s body were shared alongside realistic subtleties of how he took his life without even blurring his face. This shows how Indian media demonstrated its lack of ability to find ways only for TRP.

Police brutality manifests itself both on and off the street in the form of lathi charges, provocative _ring on citizens, public shaming and beating, fake encounters, custodial torture happening in the police station and other penitentiaries. The Third Report of the National Police Commission noted that nearly 60 % of arrests in India were either unnecessary or unjust.