S. H. SHETH, S. L. TALATI, J.

( 1 ) THE petitioner is the Executive Trustee of Consumer Education and Research Centre (hereinafter referred to as the CENTRE for the sake or brevity) at Ahmedabad. He has filed this petition as a citizen of India and also in his capacity as the Executive Trustee. The Centre published a study entitled A fraud on policy-holders. It is not disputed that it was a scientific research made into the working of the Life Insurance Corporation there in after referred to as the Corporation for the sake of brevity ). This study tried to portray and establish the dis- criminatory practices which the Corporation is alleged to have adopted and which adversely affect a large number of policy-holders their invest- ment policies their expense ralio availability of term insurance and other cognate matters. Mr. N. C. Krishnan who is a Director of the Corpora- tion wrote a reply to it. His reply was published in THE HINDU on 6/11/1978. In that reply he tried to challenge the conclusions recorded in by the study prepared by the Centre.

( 2 ) THE Corporation officially publishes a monthly magazine which is called YOGAKSHEMA. The reply from Mr. Krishnan which was publi- shed

Click Here to Read the rest of this document