Even while the Delhi police claimed it has not leaked to the media details about the police report filed against the 22-year-old climate activist Disha Ravi, a Delhi court yesterday issued notices to several TV news channels and also the News Broadcasting Standards Authority (NBSA), a self-regulatory body set up under the News Broadcasters Association.

Ravi, who had moved the Delhi High Court to restrain the media from airing one-sided reports, including private details, contended that the court restrain the media from publishing the content or extract of any alleged private chats, including those on WhatsApp, between her and third parties.

Since there were no lawyers representing the NBSA and some of the media houses named in Ravi’s petition, the court, issuing notices to them, said it would hear the matter tomorrow, according to PTI.

Ravi in her petition had said she is “severely aggrieved and prejudiced by the media trial surrounding her arrest and the ongoing investigation, where she is being viscerally attacked by the respondent 1 (police) and several media houses,” PTI reported, adding that she claimed her arrest from Bengaluru on February 13 by Delhi Police was “wholly unlawfully and without basis”.

“In these circumstances, and to restrain the respondents from further violating her privacy, her reputation, and her right to a fair trial, the petitioner is moving the present petition,” the plea said.

Her petition has alleged that investigative matters have been leaked to the media and the press briefings by the police are “prejudicial” and “grossly violative of her right to a fair trial and presumption of innocence”.

The pleas said that the “private alleged WhatsApp chats” were disseminated by media houses, which was a violation of the provisions of the Cable Televisions Networks (Regulation) Act, 1995 (CTN Act), the Programme Code and the Up linking and Downlinking Guidelines.