L. NARASIMHA REDDY, J.

( 1 ) THE petitioners in these three writ petitions are accredited journalists. Each one of them is associated with a News Agency as well as a T. V. Channel. All of them have approached the Superintendent, Central prison, Cherlapalli, Hyderabad, and Deputy general and Inspector General of Prisoners and Correctional Services, Chanchalguda, hyderabad, seeking permission to interview and elicit information from one sri Maddelacheruvu Suryanarayana reddy, alias Suri, who is serving life sentence in the Central Prison, Cherlapalli, hyderabad. The occasion for them to interview, or to elicit information from the said person arose, on account of the fact that he was arrayed as one of the accused in the murder of an M. L. A. , of the Andhra pradesh State Legislature, by name Sri paritala Ravindra, who was murdered at anantapur, on 24-1-2005.

( 2 ) PETITIONERS contend that, in view of various dimensions that the case of murder of Sri Paritala Ravindra, had assumed, it has become necessary for them to keep the public, at large, informed of the various possible angles of the matter. Extensive reference is made in the respective affidavits, to the developments, that have

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