Supreme Court · 2002 INSC 135 · Decided 11 March 2002
Harbhajan Singh v. Press Council of India and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2002 INSC 135 · [2002] 2 S.C.R. 369
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2035/2002
- Decided
- 11 March 2002
- Bench
- R.C. LAHOTI, K.G. BALAKRISHNAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution
Headnote
v. ' PRESS COUNCIL OF INDIA AND ORS. MARCH I I, 2002 [R.C. LAHOTI AND K.G. BALAKRISHNAN, JJ.) B Press Council Act, J 978-Section 6(7)-Member of Press Council- Eligibility for nomination-Member holding office for two terms in the past- .. Whether the provision debars such person from being ordinary, grammatical and fall meaning is to be assigned to the words used. D The question for consideration in the present appeal is whether Section 6(7) of Press Council Act, 1978 debars a person who had been a member of the Council for two terms in the past from being nominated. - Allowing
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