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Court vacates order restraining Nakheeran

Special Correspondent

Issue relates to publishing of articles, cartoons against Jayalalithaa, Sasikala

CHENNAI: The First Bench of the Madras High Court on Friday vacated a single judge order restraining Tamil biweekly Nakheeran from publishing articles and cartoons against Chief Minister Jayalalithaa and her friend N. Sasikalaa.

On March 16, Justice M. Chockalingam granted the interim injunction on a civil suit, which sought Rs. 2.01 crore in damages from the magazine.

Direction to magazine

Vacating it, the Bench comprising Chief Justice A.P. Shah and Justice Prabha Sridevan directed the magazine to forward a gist of the proposed articles to a fax number provided by counsel for Ms. Jayalalithaa and Ms. Sasikalaa and wait for a response for 36 hours before publishing any article.

If there was no response, the magazine could publish the articles.

Though the court said members of the media must do a "reasonable verification" before publishing anything pertaining to the private lives of persons, it declined to stipulate that the magazine must also carry the clarification of the respondents along with the article.

Request declined

The Press could not be compelled to carry clarifications from persons about whom the articles were to be written. However, said any responsible member of the Press would also include the version of such persons.

The Bench also turned down a request to permit either counsel for Ms. Jayalalithaa and Ms. Sasikalaa or other authorised persons to send response on their behalf.

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