NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court will hear on Friday a plea of an editor of ZEE News TV challenge, challenging the summons issued to him for airing a doctored clip of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi during the telecast of a programme on July 1.

Senior advocate Siddharth Dave on Thursday urged the Bench of Chief Justice of India N V Ramana and Justices Krishna Murari and Hima Kohli to list the mattere urgently as the editor of the TV channel is not protected unlike his news anchor Rohit Ranjan securing protection against coercive action in the matter.

A vacation Bench of Justices Indira Banerjee and J K Maheshwari had on July 8 granted relief to Ranjan with an interim protection, restraining various state authorities from taking coercive steps against him in the multiple FIRs filed in various states for playing Rahul's doctored clip. It had also issued notices to the Centre and the states of Rajasthan, UP and Chhattisgarh, seeking their response to Ranjan's plea to quash all complaints and FIRs concerning the telecast.

On a visit to Kerala, Rahul Gandhi spoke of pardon to those ransacking his office, but ZEE News twisted his remark to claim he was talking of pardon to those who killed a tailor in Udaipur.

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