Patna Court June 1997 Judgments

Pawan Maroo Alias Pawan Kumar Maroo Vs. State of Bihar and ors.

Court: Patna

Prasun Kumar Deb, J.1. The petitioner in this case is the Editor of Hindi daily 'RANCHI EXPRESS' published from Ranchi. It is the contention of the petitioner that this daily has a very wide circulation in the State of Bihar in general and in South Bihar in particular having vast readership in this region.2. A first information report dated 8.8.1992 was registered against the petitioner on the written information of the then Officer-in-charge of Chakradharpur Police Station (respondent No. 3) wherein it has been stated that he received a written communication from the then Deputy Commissioner, Chaibasa (respondent No. 2) annexed with the written report of one Mahendra Prasad Singh, Chakradharpur, a correspondent of Ranchi Express. In that written report, the correspondent had addressed to respondent No. 2 that he had not sent any report regarding the bomb explosion in Chandrnamari and Banglatanr area at the relevant point of time, the news item of which was published at Ranchi Express...