NEW DELHI: A Patna-based social activist moved Supreme Court challenging a Patna high court order imposing blanket ban on print and electronic media on reporting the exploitation of children at a shelter home in Muzaffarpur till the investigations were complete.The petitioner Nivedita Jha, who approached the apex court through advocate Fauzia Shakil, contended that banning media from reporting in the case is violative of the freedom of speech guaranteed under the Constitution and pleaded the court to set aside the order.“The HC has failed to appreciate that people have the right to know which has been recognised as a part of freedom of speech and expression. Blanket ban on media reporting affects the public right to know. More so, in the facts of the case, where the children in the remand homes, meant for their care and protection, being subjected to abuse which erodes the faith of the public in the state machinery,” the petition said.