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Parliamentary Debates Parliament of India Tuesday 11th September 1951 Part II - Proceedings other than Questions and Answers Official Report

1951

necessitated the revision of the con- tract were the termination of the Empire Air Mail Scheme on the 1st April. [...] And yet here is this Bill proposing to confirm the Government in the enjoyment of many of those powers which have been frequently and seriously used to the detriment of freedom in the past and which were con- demned by the courts as unconsti- tutional but to which the hasty amendment of the Constitution gave a new lease of life. [...] If it was entirely open to the explanation, namely to punish a press, the objection would be right but if the question of the smallness of the press etc. [...] I would like him to point out the text of the Bill where it is open to the judge to say: Well, we want security from the newspaper but not from the press. [...] Shri Santhanam : 1 am only suggest- ing that the liability of the beeper to the ordinary individual is the same as the liability to the State proYided in the Press Act.
government politics public policy
Pages
40
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100013
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
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Leave of Absence from the House
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Admissibility or Disallowance of Questions
2365-2367 unknown view
Statement Re contract for Carriage of Mails
2367-2367 unknown view
Paper Laid on the Table
2367-2367 unknown view
Press Incitement to Crime Bill
2367-2397 unknown view
Backmatter
i-i unknown view