Gag order petition to be heard today

The Delhi High Court will on Friday hear a petition filed by a group of journalists challenging a lower court order that had restrained the media from reporting the recent gang rape case proceedings.

The Delhi High Court will on Friday hear a petition filed by a group of journalists challenging a lower court order that had restrained the media from reporting the recent gangrape case proceedings.

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"The entire country is interested in the case. The gag order is against public interest," senior advocate Meenakshi Lekhi told a bench headed by chief justice D Murugesan who referred the case to a single judge bench. The matter will now be heard by a single judge bench of justice Rajiv Shakder.

District and sessions judge RK Gauba had on Wednesday dismissed a petition challenging a metropolitan magistrate's order imposing the gag order.