Govt told to review ban on English dailies in libraries

In April 2012,the state government,in an order,had specified the names of six newspapers that would be available at government libraries. The order did not list leading English dailies and high-circulation Bengali dailies.

Following the order,advocate Basabi Raichaudhury

filed a PIL in the Calcutta High Court,alleging that the government order was a violation of rights. It was the right of the readers to select the newspapers,he stated in the petition.

Today,advocate Subrata Mukhopadhyay,counsel of Raichaudhury,pleaded that out of the six newspapers,three newspapers were no longer published now.

Following such submission,the Division Bench headed by Chief Justice Arun Mishra geasked the government to reconsider its decision, otherwise the Bench would hear the case on merit and pass necessary orders.