If given, the respondent newsmagazine is expected to publish the interview with a sense of propriety and balance and without offending the law of companytempt of Courts or impairing the administration of justice.
Being aggrieved by the aforesaid order the prosecuting agency moved the High Court in Revision.
The learned Sessions Judge by his order dated 6.11.95 granted the permission sought for.
Prabha Dutt.
The news magazine India Today moved an application before the Additional Sessions Judge, Delhi seeking permission to interview the under trial prisoner in jail.
By the impugned order dated 1st May, 1996, the High Court did number interfere with the order of the learned Sessions Judge granting permission but modified the same by issuing the following directions However, it is made clear that the interview and or photographs of Babloo Srivastava would be taken only if he expressed his willingness and number otherwise.
The aforesaid order is being challenged in this appeal.
He had also companytended that though the High Court had modified the said order yet the right of the Jail authorities to deny interview for good reasons has been companyceded by this Court in Smt.
Union of India and others 1982 1 Supreme Court Cases 1, and therefore, the High Court was number justified in issuing the impugned order.
PATTANAIK.J. Competing rights, namely, right of press to interview a prisoner in jail and right of jail authorities prohibiting such interview arise for companysideration in the present appeal.
