Supreme Court Partly Allows Contempt Appeal: Editor's Conviction Upheld, Politician's Quashed for Pre-Arrest Statement on Murder Conspiracy. Majority holds pre-arrest statement not contempt as proceedings not imminent; editor liable as publication post-arrest.
15 Sep 1969The dispute arose from a contempt proceeding against A.K. Gopalan, a political leader, and P. Govinda Pillai, editor of the newspaper 'Deshabhimani', ...
