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New Delhi, March 22 (PTI): Open trial is a rule and proceedings in the December 16 gang rape case can be accessed by the media because of “searing public interest”, Delhi High Court said today, reversing a fast-track court’s order.
The high court slammed Delhi police saying they had “no business” issuing an advisory prohibiting reporting of the trial in the fast-track court and that “the state in a sense sought to usurp discretion vested entirely in the court”.
“To deny that there is a searing public interest in the case would be to act like an ostrich whose head is buried in sand,” Justice Rajiv Shakdher said while allowing a representative each from national dailies and news agencies to cover the trial. The court said no concrete direction could be issued on coverage of such a case.
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