Freedom of press

Statement of Editors Guild of India on Press and Registration of Periodicals Bill, 2023

advtanmoy 05/09/2023

The Guild is concerned about the expansion of powers of the Press Registrar, the new restrictions on...

SC quashes Sedition FIR against Journalist Vinod Dua-uphold freedom of speech SUPREME COURT

SC quashes Sedition FIR against Journalist Vinod Dua-uphold freedom of speech

advtanmoy 03/06/2021

It must however be clarified that every Journalist will be entitled to protection in terms of Kedar...

State Govt`s Power of forfeiture and searching certain Publications under Cr.P.C

advtanmoy 25/10/2020

Sec-95- Power to declare certain publications forfeited and to issue search warrants for the same (1)...

Journalist and confidential sources-public interest in disclosure vs public interest in confidentiality Supreme-Court-of-Canada

Journalist and confidential sources-public interest in disclosure vs public interest in confidentiality

advtanmoy 14/10/2020

Whether a journalist can exempt from the obligation on the basis of a journalistic privilege rooted either...

A. GOSWAMI VS UOI: SC upheld Press Rights, stayed FIRs except one while restraining coercive action, allowed three weeks for Bail-24/04/2020

advtanmoy 24/04/2020

Save and except for FIR No 238 of 2020 dated 22 April 2020, registered at Police Station...

Keshavan Madhava Menon Vs The State of Bombay-22/01/1951 Supreme Court of India

Keshavan Madhava Menon Vs The State of Bombay-22/01/1951

advtanmoy 08/04/2020

What Art. 13(1) provides is that all existing laws which clash with the exercise of the fundamental...

OF THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS: David Hume

advtanmoy 06/05/2019

Nothing is more apt to surprise a foreigner, than the extreme liberty which we enjoy in this...

Freedom of press is not absolute, it has to respect public order, decency, privacy of individual and morality [KHC]

advtanmoy 30/04/2019

JACOB MATHEW AND ANOTHER Vs. MANIKANTAN ALIAS G. MANI AND ANOTHER -The question emerging for consideration is...

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran [Selective Reading]

advtanmoy 03/01/2019

Freedom And an orator said, Speak to us of Freedom. And he answered: At the city gate...

A writer should have free play with words, like a painter has it with colours-SC

advtanmoy 05/09/2018

N. Radhakrishnan @ Radhakrishnan Varenickal VS Union of India and others

Whether there is any law empowering State or its officials to prohibit or to impose a prior restraint upon press-media Powerful legal research enterprise

Whether there is any law empowering State or its officials to prohibit or to impose a prior restraint upon press-media

advtanmoy 01/09/2018

There is no law empowering the State or its officials to prohibit, or to impose a prior...

Keshavan Madhava Menon Versus The State of Bombay [SC 1951 January] Capture

Keshavan Madhava Menon Versus The State of Bombay [SC 1951 January]

advtanmoy 16/11/2017

KEYWORDS: FREEDOM OF SPEECH AIR 1951 SC 128 : (1951) SCR 228 : (1951) CriLJ SC 860...

Brij Bhusan and another Versus The State of Delhi[SC 1950 May ] Criminal Law-min

Brij Bhusan and another Versus The State of Delhi[SC 1950 May ]

advtanmoy 20/10/2017

KeyWorsd:-Pre-censorship-Public Order-Freedom of Press⇔ Imposition of pre-censorship on a journal is a restriction on the liberty of...