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MAH LLB 3 Year CET 2026 (1 April Shift 1)

Legal Principle:1.The media cannot usurp the jurisdiction of the courts, which alone have the constitutional authority to decide the guilt/innocence of a person or decide on the content, quality, or width of any right available to any citizen/accused/suspect.2.Media cannot be given the right to speculate on the outcomes of ongoing investigations, court proceedings, or criminal trials.Facts:Naman Arora was a well-known prime-time journalist for a media outlet. Suraj, Dileep's brother-in-law, pleaded against Naman, stating that the media outlets subjected Dileep to media trials while reporting on a murder plot case and a sexual assault case. Suraj alleged that the media channel is publishing fabricated allegations against the accused and their associates in the said cases.As a result, he requested an injunction to prevent the media from covering the court proceedings. According to the petitioner, the top police officers investigating the case were leaking out materials allegedly collected during the investigation, including those from the in-camera trials. Despite the orders of the Magistrate Court and Session Court concerning the publication of details about court proceedings, Reporter TV, as well as the other media portals, had been reporting these details.Choose the best option as per the legal principle given above:

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Answer: Option A — This clearly interferes with the administration of justice, besides causing prejudice to the petitioner.

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The principle forbids the media from usurping the courts' role or speculating on pending trials.

Publishing fabricated allegations and in-camera material, in defiance of court orders, does exactly that: it interferes with the administration of justice and prejudices the accused.

Option B brings in defamation, which the principle does not deal with; option C contradicts principle 2; option D is wrong because the facts say the police leaked the material, not Naman.

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Legal Reasoning is part of the Legal Aptitude & Legal Reasoning section of MAH LAW CET (32 questions in the 5-year LLB paper, 24 in the 3-year paper). Topics: Applying a given legal principle to a set of facts — the main question type in the Law CET legal section, with principles extracted from previous years' papers. Practise Law CET-level MCQs with step-by-step explanations.