Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Sept 4: The High Court while taking serious note of news item published in a national newspaper with regard to working of the court proceedings directed the matter be placed before the Chief Justice for initiating criminal proceedings against the publisher of the said new paper.
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The Division Bench of Atul Sreedharan and Justice Mohammad Yousuf Wani has taken serious note of the said news article as soon as the bench was informed that the news items under the caption “NIA, Heabus Corpus cases shifted from Justice Atul Sreedharan headed by double bench in J&K, Judge goes on leave” was published in newspaper “The Hindu”.
It was alleged in the news items that the roaster of cases pertaining to NIA and PSAs were shifted midway from the bench headed by Justice Sreedharan to a new Division Bench in the Srinagar wing of the High Court.
Court has clarified that at no point of time, NIA petitions were heard by any special bench and for the first time in order to expedite these matters, the NIA matters were considered as separate as being the matter of liberty and treated as separate subject matter so that these matters be dealt speedily and expeditiously.
“Thus, the factual aspect given by the social media and newspaper was false, malicious and contemptuous as the same amounts to interference with administration of Justice. This misrepresentation not only misleads the public but also damages trust in the judiciary”, The bench recorded.
Under these circumstances the bench directed the Registrar Judicial to place the matter before the Chief Justice for initiating criminal proceedings against the publisher of the newspaper “The Hindu”.
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