Court : Supreme Court of India
..... the extent relevant, we shall extract part three, which reads as follows:- "part three chapter 1 recommendation of the wage boards for working journalists and non- journalist newspaper employees (other than newspaper employees in new agency) section 1 preliminary short title and commencement.- (1) these recommendations may be called the manisana (wage ..... board shall, by notice published in such manner as it thinks fit, call upon newspaper establishments and working journalists and other persons interested in the fixation or revision of rates of wages of working journalists to make such representations as they may think fit as respects the rates of wages which may ..... which has been violated so as to make them liable for prosecution. the wage board under the working journalists and other newspaper employees (conditions of service) and miscellaneous provisions act, 1955 (for short, 'working journalists act'), has only given their recommendations as per section 10 and under section 12, the same .....
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Reported in : AIR1964SC279; [1963(7)FLR246]; (1963)IILLJ385SC; [1964]3SCR100
..... earlier years of their professional career, income from the practice of their own profession. but it would not, on that account, be correct to classify them as working journalists, so long as their professed avocation is other than journalism.' it would be noticed that the expression 'professed avocation' has not been adopted by the legislature instead, it has used the words 'principal avocation ..... presumption would be that their full time employment is their principal avocation and no question of comparing their income from journalism with income from other sources can arise. in fact, the status of such full time journalists as working journalists will not be affected even if in some cases the income received by them from such employment may be found to be less than .....
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Reported in : AIR1958SC578; (1961)ILLJ339SC; (1964)ILLJ9SC; [1959]1SCR12
..... of the industrial disputes act, 1947, and was extended to six months in the case of an editor and three months in the case of any other working journalist. the provision with regard to retrenchment was also made applicable retrospectively to all cases of retrenchment which had occurred between july 14, 1954, and march 12 ..... if, therefore, such a machinery was devised for their benefit, there was nothing objectionable in it and there was no discrimination as between the working journalists and the other employees of newspaper establishments in that behalf. the capacity of the industry to pay was certainly to be taken into consideration by the wage board ..... the union government introduced a bill in the rajya sabha, being bill no. 13 of 1955. it was a bill to regulate conditions of service of working journalists and other persons employed in newspaper establishments. the recommendations of the press commission in regard to minimum period of notice, bonus, sunday rest, leave, and provident fund .....
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Reported in : (1982)3SCC24; [1983]1SCR145a
..... point of kania, c. j. in a. k. gopalan. it was further urged that the object of the impugned act was only to regulate certain conditions of service of working journalists and other, persons employed in the newspaper establishments and not to take away or abridge the freedom of speech or expression enjoyed by the petitioners and, therefore, the impugned act could not ..... impugned act, which had for its object the regulation of the conditions of service of working journalists and other persons employed in newspaper establishments, provided, inter alia, for the payment of gratuity to a working journalist who had been in continuous service for a certain period. it also regulated hours of work and leave and provided for retrenchment compensation. section 9(1) laid down the principles .....
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Reported in : (1982)3SCC24; 19831SCR145;
..... point of kania, c. j. in a. k. gopalan. it was further urged that the object of the impugned act was only to regulate certain conditions of service of working journalists and other, persons employed in the newspaper establishments and not to take away or abridge the freedom of speech or expression enjoyed by the petitioners and, therefore, the impugned act could not ..... impugned act, which had for its object the regulation of the conditions of service of working journalists and other persons employed in newspaper establishments, provided, inter alia, for the payment of gratuity to a working journalist who had been in continuous service for a certain period. it also regulated hours of work and leave and provided for retrenchment compensation. section 9(1) laid down the principles .....
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Reported in : AIR1982SC149; 1981Supp(1)SCC87; [1982]2SCR365
..... and presumably he got particulars of these suits from the chief justice of india when the chief justice of india had a lengthy discussion with him about his work and other general matters. true, there was a meeting and oral discussion between the two on march 26, 1981 but it is impossible to accept the aforesaid contention ..... . if shri kumar's integrity in the opinion of the chief justice of india was beyond reproach, the fact whether he was slow in the disposal of work or other minor considerations should not have come in the way of the chief justice of india recommending a full term extension. it appears, however, that this three months ..... enforcing the constitutional right of the inmates of the protective home and providing judicial redress to them. this court has also entertained a letter addressed by a journalist claiming relief against demolition of hutments of pavement dwellers by the municipal corporation of bombay and this letter has been treated as a writ petition by a bench .....
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Reported in : AIR1978SC597; (1978)1SCC248; [1978]2SCR621
..... offends a particular fundamental right. the learned judge pointed out that all the consequences suggested on behalf of the petitioner's as flowing out of the working journalists (conditions of service) and miscellaneous act, 1955, namely, 'the tendency to curtail circulation and thereby narrow the scope of dissemination of information, fetters ..... the only article safeguarding personal liberty several well-recognised rights, as for instance, the right to eat or drink, the right to work, play, swim and numerous other rights and activities and even the right to life will not be deemed protected under the constitution. i do not think that is ..... glaring inequality and bleeding communalism, the promotion of tourism, of giving and taking know-how, of studying abroad, and inviting scholars from afar-these and other realistic considerations gave tongue to those hallowed human rights fortified by the impregnable provisions of part iii. swami vivekananda, that saintly revolutionary who spanned east and .....
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Reported in : AIR1959SC395; [1959]Supp1SCR806
..... before us, who is a citizen of india, is by profession a journalist and has at all material times been and is still working as the editor of the searchlight., one of the well-known english daily newspapers having a large circulation in patna and other places in the state of bihar. the first respondent has at all material ..... his criticisms, or his comments, is as wide as, and no wider than, that of any other subject, no privilege attaches to his position." then came our constitution on january 26, ..... whatever lengths the subject in general may go, so also may the journalist, but, apart from statute law, his privilege is no other and no higher. the responsibilities which attach to his power in the dissemination of printed matter may, and in the case of a conscientious journalist do, make him more careful; but the range of his assertions, .....
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..... obstruction, insult, criminal intimidation, enmity, hatred or ill-will, was struck down in shreya singhal on the ground of, inter alia, vagueness. x) norms of journalistic conduct, 2010 issued by the press council of india (constituted under the press council act, 1978) contain extensive guidelines on the reporting of communal incidents. 51 the ..... my views right to free speech be fundamental rights imposed on grounds not taking a competing found in article 19(2) by claim against each invoking other other, additional fundamental rights?. restrictions not found in article 19(2), cannot be imposed on the exercise of the right conferred by article 19(1)(a) ..... into every legally or ethically wrong act was found to be unsatisfactory and unsound. the principle of individual as well as 140 collective ministerial responsibility can work most efficiently only when cases requiring proper sifting and evaluation of evidence and discussion of questions involved have taken place, where this is required, in .....
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..... to uplink and downlink a news and current affairs television channel called media one . the appellants, comprising of mbl, the trade union of working journalists, and the editor, senior web designer and senior cameraman of planetcast media services ltd, initiated proceedings under article 226 of the constitution before the ..... paragraph 10.4 excludes the eligibility criteria of net worth of the company and managerial experience from the consideration of the renewal application. all other conditions prescribed by the guidelines for permission are applicable for renewal of permission. the requirement of security clearance arises at a stage subsequent to ..... prescribes national security as one of the grounds which can be used to reasonably restrict rights expressly in the context of article 19. further, other provisions of the constitution prescribe a departure from principles during emergency situations that impact national security.62 similarly, informational privacy and confidentiality are now .....
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