( 1 ) IN this Rule, the first petitioner is the Statesman Limited (hereinafter referred to as the Statesman) and the second petitioner is Cushrow Russy Irani, who is a shareholder and the Managing Director of the Statesman, Mr. Irani is the Chairman of the Press Trust of India and of the Audit Bureau of Circulation Limited. He is also one of the two Directors from India of the Press Foundation of Asia, Manila, Phillipines. He was at all material times the President of the Indian and Eastern Newspaper Society.

( 2 ) BY a resolution No 19/3/72- Press, dated April 14, 1972. The Government of India decided to set up a Fact Finding Committee (hereinafter referred to as the Committee) with the Respondent No. 2, Bhabatosh Datta as the Chairman and the third, fourth, fifth and sixth respondents as members of the said Committee. The resolution is in the following terms:--"resolution in pursuance of the decision to inquire into the economics of the newspaper industry, the Government of India have decided to set up a Fact Finding Committee, consisting of non-officials and officials. The composition of the Committee is as follows:--CHAIRMAN 1. DR. BHABATOSH DATTA, retd.