Supreme Court · 1987 INSC 256 · Decided 18 September 1987
Sheela Barse v. State of Maharashtra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1987 INSC 256 · [1988] 1 S.C.R. 210
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 1053/1982
- Decided
- 18 September 1987
- Bench
- RANGANATH MISRA, M.M. DUTT (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 19(l)(a), 21, 32
Headnote
c D E F Permission to journalists to interview prisoners and tape-record 'r the interviews, guarantees under Articles 19(1)(a) and 21-Benefits thereof for all the citizens. Sheela Barse, a free lance journalist, sought permission to interview the female prisoners in the Maharashtra State ,Jails. started tape-recording her interviews with the pris­ oners, the permission to interview was withdrawn. Feeling ag"rieved by the cancellation of the permission, the journalist moved this Court in its writ jurisdiction on the ground that a citizen has a right to know under Articles
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