ORDER

Pursuant to the order passed by this Court on January 13, 1997, M. Gopal Reddy, IAS, the then Director of Public Relations & Information and Mangal Prasad Misra, then Assistant Director, Public Relations & Information appeared in person. They have filed their affidavits. This Court by order dated September 9, 1995 had disposed of the appeal filed by the State of Madhya Pradesh on the basis of the consent of the learned senior counsel appearing for the State, Shri P.P. Rao and Shri D.D. Thakur, learned senior counsel for the petitioner. This Court had stated that in view of the respective stands taken by the counsel on either side, the courts below were directed to dispose of all the pending or connected matters between the parties on their merits, without being influenced by any of the findings and observations made by the High Court in the impugned judgment under appeal. The appeal was accordingly disposed of. On September 9, 1995, after the receipt of the order passed by this Court, M.P. Mishra, the then Assistant Director, Public Relations and Information in the Directorate of the Government of Madhya Pradesh at Bhopal had the news published conveying to the public that the