Justice M Nagaprasanna asked the petitioner to take the matter before the jurisdictional court. The YouTube channel challenged the trial court’s order passed last week, insisting that it violated its rights.
The advocate appearing for the channel said 300 media outlets and URL links were to be blocked per the session court’s order. The judge told the advocate that he must place the petition before the jurisdictional court.
The petitioner said it would convince the bench that the jurisdictional court would hear the case. The judge adjourned the hearing to July 29.
The Supreme Court had on Wednesday refused to hear a similar plea asking the petitioner to first approach the high court.
The state government has constituted a four-member special investigation team to probe the reports of burials of dead bodies in the temple town after a local person claimed he had done so.
A Bengaluru court had, by an order, restrained media houses and YouTube channels from publishing, circulating, or telecasting defamatory content showing the family members administering the temple and the institutions run by them in a poor light.
