Bengaluru, Sept. 25 -- The Madras high court on Friday restrained media outlets from publishing or broadcasting videos in connection with the Pocso act case against granite baron R Veeramani, observing that premature publication of such material could "deter other child victims from coming forward".

Justice V Lakshminarayanan said the media could debate the case, but should not telecast or circulate explicit videos involving the alleged victims.

"Publishing it prematurely is going to have a chilling effect on the other victims.If it is going to be published and debated, if I were the victim, I wouldn't have the gall to come for investigation. You can have debates on the issue. It should be debated. But can't you debate without circulati...