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High Court throws out press gag challenge.

Statesman (India)

| June 28, 2000 | COPYRIGHT 1999 The Statesman (English). (Hide copyright information)Copyright

CALCUTTA, June 23. - The Division Bench of the Chief Justice, Mr AK Mathur and Mr Justice Barin Ghosh of Calcutta High Court today dismissed a writ petition challenging an order of the West Bengal State Election Commission which imposed restrictions on the entry of photographers and reporters into polling stations during the polling in the Calcutta Municipal Corporation and Bidhan Nagar municipal elections on 25 June.

A Calcutta journalist, Mr Prabir Ghosal, had filed this writ petition. Mr SB Mookherjee who moved it, submitted that the State Election Commission's blanket ban on the entry of press representatives into polling stations curtailed journalists' right to …

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