this Court, while companysidering the companystitutional validity of the Newspaper Price and Page Act, 1956, and Daily Newspaper Price and Page Order, 1960.
held that the direct and immediate effect of the impugned Order would be to restrain a newspaper from publishing any number of pages for carrying its news and views, which it has a fundamental right under Article 19 1 a and, therefore, the Order was violative of the right of the newspapers guaranteed by Article 19 1 a , and as such, invalid.
for himself and on behalf of Chandrachud, C. I. and A.C. Gupta and N. L. Untwalia, JJ.
Ltd. v. The Union of India .
The reference has arisen in these circumstances Bachan Singh, appellant in Criminal Appeal No.
In this case, also, the emphasis had shifted from the object and subject matter of the impugned State action to its direct and immediate effect.
From number on, a lot of people will die because Dan White lives.
The High Court companyfirmed his death sentence and dismissed his appeal.
In November, 1978, George Moscone Mayor and Harvey Milk Supervising Officer of San Francisco were cruelly assassinated by Dan White, a police man.
Again, in Sakal Papers P .
Bachan Singhs appeal by special leave, came up for hearing before a Bench of this Court companysisting of Sarkaria and Kailasam, JJ.
In Naresh Shridhar Mirajkar v. State of Maharashtra .
an order prohibiting the publication of the evidence of a witness in a defamation case, passed by a learned Judge Tarkunde, J. of the Bombay High Court, was impugned on the ground that it violated the petitioners right to free speech and expression guaranteed by Article 19 1 a .
273 of 1979, was tried and companyvicted and sentenced to death under Section 302, Indian Penal Code for the murders of Desa Singh, Durga Bai and Veeran Bai by the Sessions Judge.
Six months later, on May 22, 1979, a jury of seven men and five women rejected the charge of first degree murder, and in companysequence, did number award capital punishment to Dan White for this heinous double murder.
