Contempt Notice against Union Home Secretary, I&B Secretary

Allahabad High Court, Lucknow Bench today issued contempt notices to Union Home Secretary Anil Goswami and Information and Broadcasting Secretary, Bimal Julka. The Bench of Justice Ajai Lamba issued this notice on the contempt petition filed by social activist Dr. Nutan Thakur against not following the orders issued by the bench of Justice Uma Nath Singh and Justice Mahendra Dayal who had directed them to decide Thakur’s representations within four weeks.

The representations were as regards framing guideline to direct the newspaper publishers and news channel broadcasters to keep record of their newspapers for a definite period and to provide these records to those asking for it on a nominal fee and to take specific names of the newspapers and news channels being referred to in their news instead of using cryptic words like one newspaper or one news channel.