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HC clerk summoned with record of Medha Patkar's plea to quash defamation case by KVIC chief


HC clerk summoned with record of Medha Patkar s plea to quash defamation case by KVIC chief
Saxena earlier said in his plea that the Narmada Bachao Andolan activist made an incorrect statement of having denied issuing libelous press statement against him.
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By PTI
NEW DELHI: A court here has summoned an official of the Delhi High Court s record room with the original copy of a writ petition filed by Medha Patkar in which she had sought quashing of the defamation case filed by KVIC chairman V K Saxena.
Saxena, who is locked in a cross-defamation case against Patkar, had filed an application in the court, saying that the Narmada Bachao Andolan activist made an incorrect statement of having denied issuing libelous press statement against him. ....

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80 years ago today the Daily Worker was banned. Are there lessons for us today?


The 18-month prohibition was the longest ban imposed on any newspaper by government order in British history.
Home Secretary Herbert Morrison – grandfather of New Labour grandee Peter Mandelson – justified the ban on the grounds that the Daily Worker was undermining the war effort. 
When challenged in Parliament over this, he was unable to point to any specific evidence – instead defending the ban as a preventive measure based on the likelihood of it doing so.
Left-wing MPs including Nye Bevan protested at the use of wartime emergency powers to ban our paper, while in the trade union movement, even leaders opposed to the paper’s editorial stance – that the second world war at that stage was an inter-imperialist conflict – were alarmed at the dictatorial nature of the move. Railway union leader J Marchbank pointed out that the government could have taken the Daily Worker to court if it believed it had broken the law in its reportage on the war: the arbitrar ....

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