<div>The Supreme Court today asked a Gujarat trial court not to proceed till April 12 with the criminal defamation complaint filed by BJP president Amit Shah's son Jay Shah against the news portal &quot;The Wire&quot; and its journalists.</div>''<div><br />''</div>''<div>A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra asked Jay Shah and others, who have filed the complaint against the scribes, to respond within two weeks to the plea filed by the journalists against the Gujarat High Court's order, refusing to quash the summons issued against them by the trial court.</div>''<div><br />''</div>''<div>The bench, also comprising Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud, observed that the media should be more responsible and said it cannot write whatever it feels about anyone.</div>''<div><br />''</div>''<div>The Chief Justice, while repeatedly stressing that he was not commenting on the case before it, also said that sometimes journalists write in a way that amounts to &quot;sheer contempt of court&quot;.</div>''<div><br />''</div>''<div>The Gujarat High Court had on January 8 rejected a petition filed by the news portal, seeking quashing of a criminal defamation case filed against it by Jay Shah over an article related to his company.</div>''<div><br />''</div>''<div>Jay Shah had moved the lower court alleging criminal defamation by the petitioners after the article published by the website claimed his company's turnover grew exponentially after the BJP-led government came to power at the Centre in 2014.</div>