( 1 ) BY a letter D/-April 11, 1984 Mr. Rajesh Khaitan, an Advocate of this Court and an elected member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly drew my attention to an Article entitled "the dead tell no tales" illustrated with photographs appearing at pages 38, 39 and 41 of the issue of "sunday" D/-8/14th April, 1984. After seeing the aforesaid Article and the photographs, in the interest of the public, I issued a Rule Nisi on April 12, 1984 calling upon the Chief Secretary of the West Bengal Government and the Keeper of the Mominpur Morgue to show cause as to why necessary steps should not be taken in accordance with law to dispose of the bodies lying in the Morgue, some of which according to the photographs were in a highly decomposed state. I further directed the respondents to show cause why the bodies should not be disposed of in accordance with the provisions of S. 468 of the Calcutta Municipal Corporation Act, 1980.

( 2 ) BY a later order D/-20-6-1984, I discharged (sic) Shri Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharjee, the State Counsel, as a Special Officer and permitted the petitioner to have photographs of the Morgue taken in the presence of an official of the Morgue