Gang rape: Gag order quashed, media access allowed

March 22, 2013 21:16

"Open trial is a rule" and the proceedings in the December 16 gang rape case can be accessed by the media as 'seering public interest' is attached to it, the Delhi high court today said quashing the order of the special fast track court barring journalist presence and reporting on it.

"To deny that there is a seering public interest in the prosecution of the case, would be to act like an ostrich, whose head is buried in sand," Justice Rajiv Shakdher said while allowing a representative each from national dailies and news agencies including PTI to cover the day-to-day hearing of the sensational case that had sparked national outrage

"...open trial is a rule, and wherever exceptions are carved out, they are made only to secure the ends of justice," the bench said.

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