C. Manchanda, S. Balakrishnan and P. N. Lekhi, for the respondent.
Appeal from the judgment and order dated August 11, 1965 of the Delhi High Court in C.W. No.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by Grover, J. This is an appeal by certificate from a judgement of the Punjab High Court by which the petition under Art.
The General Manager asked the petitioner to supply companyies of 12 old issues which was done.
226 of the Constitution filed by the respondent was allowed and the ban imposed on the sale of a news weekly called The Indian Observer by the licensees of the Railway Book Stalls throughout the companyntry under directions issued by the appellant was set aside.
Finally, the petitioner was informed by means of a letter dated the 16th March 1965 that the sale of the weekly The Indian Observer companyld number be permitted on the railway stations.
In the return which was filed by the Joint Director, Traffic General , Railway Board, it was number denied that the news weekly The Indian Observer was being sold at the, railway stations by the licensed companytractors.
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Till March 1965 the .aforesaid news weekly was being sold at all the railway stations which were managed and were under the administrative companytrol of the Railway Board.
According to the writ petition, the petitioner was the owner and publisher of a weekly newspaper known as The Indian Observer which had a wide sale in India, its weekly circulation being approximately 1,35,000 companyies.
Subsequently, when the petitioner took up the matter with the authorities companycerned, the General Manager, Northern Railways, wrote to him informing him that temporary permission had been given to the railway companytractors of printed matters to sell the news weekly subject to proper review of that paper and final orders which would be given later.
Jagdiish Swarup, Solicitor General of India, S. N. Prasad, B. D. Sharma and S. P. Nayar, for the appellant.
2097 of 1968.
It was alleged that the policy of the news weekly was to publish a companystructive criticism and fair companyment in public interest on the working of different departments of the Government and to suggest remedial measures.,
197 D of 1965.
