The Karnataka High Court last month directed the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&B) to consider and pass appropriate orders on a complaint filed by Kannada actor Darshan Thoogudeepa, who alleged that media channels violated earlier injunction orders restraining them from airing details about the Renukaswamy murder case, in which he is an accused. “Broadcast media has gone to the extent of recreating courtroom proceedings, with only the face of the presiding judge being masked, while the faces of the accused and counsel are openly displayed. Such programmes are telecast on every date of hearing, thereby converting pending judicial proceedings into a form of public spectacle,” Justice Sachin Shankar Magadum said in an order dated April 30. The order was made public on Friday.…