This goes further than violating the legal provisions discussed above, but also raises a number of other questions about the way in which the rights of a survivor are protected by the media.

During the show, questions were raised by Shivshankar and his guests as to whether or not the footage corroborated the survivor’s version of events, about her actions and supposed discrepancies between the video and her initial complaint/statement. However, what the show failed to mention was that the survivor had already answered these questions to a certain extent in court, where she has already given her testimony as the key witness.

To make this worse, she has now been waiting for over four months for Tejpal’s lawyers to cross-examine her – which would be the appropriate forum for raising such ‘questions’. She cannot even come forward to clarify anything or defend herself against the wild statements made by Shivshankar, Kumar and their panelists since she has not been discharged by the court as a witness.

As an example of the blatant mudslinging against her, see this from lawyer Ravi Sharma: