122 of 1958, which was heard and determined by this Court by its judgment dated December 12, 1958, and by Writ Petition No.
106 of 1959, which was heard by this Court on November 10, 11 and 12, 1959, but which did number reach the stage of judgment by this Court, inasmuch as the petitioners Advocate requested the Court to permit him to withdraw the petition and the Court allowed the prayer and permitted the petitioner to withdraw the petition.
Basudeva Prasad, M. K. Ramamurthi, K. N. Keshwa and R. Mahalingier, for the petitioner.
In each of these petitions the petitioner, who is a journalist by profession and is functioning as the Editor of the Searchlight , an English daily newspaper published from Patna in the State of Bihar, impugned the validity of the proceedings before the Committee of Privileges and prayed for restraining the opposite party, namely, the Chief Minister of Bihar as Chairman of the Committee of Privileges, Bihar Legislative Assembly, Committee of Privileges and the Secretary of the Bihar Legislative Assembly, from proceeding against the petitioner for the publication in its issue dated May 31, 1957, of the Searchlight an account of the debate in the Legislative Assembly, Bihar, on May 30, 1957.
Lal Narain Sinha, B. K. P. Sinha, L. S. Sinha and S. P. Varma, for the respondents.
32 of the Constitution the petitioner raises almost the same companytroversy as had been done in Writ Petition No.
On January 5, 1959, the petitioner received a numberice that the case of breach of privilege against him would be companysidered by the Committee of Privileges of the Assembly on February 3, 1959.
ORIGINAL JURISDICTION Petition No.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by SINHA C. J. By this petition under Art.
C. Setalvad, Attorney General for India, C. K. Daphtary, Solicitor General of India, H. J. Umrigar and T. Sen, for the Attorney General of India.
That hearing was postponed from date to date, until in August, 1959, the petitioner filed his petition under Art.
August 1.
176 of 1959.
