India, Nov. 6 -- The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Centre and the states to respond to a proposed manual on media briefing by police, which was drafted by a senior lawyer assisting as amicus curiae and seeks to ensure that information shared by police does not result in a media trial and protects the dignity and privacy of victims involved in crimes.

The 61-page document has called for avoiding use of terms that stigmatise individuals, victim-blaming, moralising and withholding names, faces, voices and family details to prevent re-victimisation and secondary harm to victims.

"We will ask the states to go through this document. It is an exhaustive job done by the amicus. We will list the matter after eight weeks," the bench of just...