The "Times Now" has rightly been ordered to deposit Rs 100 crore by the Supreme Court in a libel case.

I am great votary of freedom of expression and also an aficionado of the TV programme of Arnab Goswamy on the "Times Now" but certainly I do not subscribe to the view that the media be allowed to act irresponsibly.

I was myself targeted and defamed by four news papers of Patna. They are the Hindustan Times, Hindustan, Dainik Jagran, Aaj and Amrit Varsha all published from Patna. The PCI reprimanded them. A defamation suit is also pending against them in which notices have been issued a long time back but they have not replied or appeared so far.

Justice Sawant the Times Now victim belongs to a higher stratum of the society but the common men & women who are victims of scurrilous reporting are not so fortunate.

I strongly denounce yellow journalism. The reputation of innocent persons when damaged by the print and electronic media is hard to retrieve.