To mark the
occasion, various activities conducted across India celebrating importance of
radio in the day to day life.
In Odisha,
a two-day annual international event Outreach International Radio Fair 2016 was
inaugurated in Bhubaneswar.
The ruling
was delivered by a bench led by Chief Justice of India T S Thakur while
dismissing a plea filed by law student Gaurav Sureshbhai Vyas against a Gujarat
High Court order.
The
petitioner contended that the high court’s order, which upheld a clampdown on
mobile internet access under Section 144 of the CrPC during the Patidar
agitation, was a violation of the right to freedom of speech and expression
granted under the Article 19 (1) (a) of the Constitution.
The Gujarat
high court, in September 2015, ruled that the clampdown was only minimal
restriction and not a violation of free speech, which extends to unhindered
access to internet.