This writ petition is filed by the publisher of 'Thejass', a Malayalam news daily, aggrieved by the denial of Governmental advertisements in their newspaper.

2. Thejass was initially granted Governmental advertisements. The petitioner says that the State has withdrawn the advertisements to the Thejass without any justifiable reasons and that the decision of the Government was without affording an opportunity of being heard. It is projected by the petitioner that Thejass is having more than 2 lakhs readers. It is also argued that the Governmental advertisements cannot be selective and discriminative.

3. The State's version for denial was on the ground that all the main Directors of Thejass, except one Director, are former activists of the Students Islamic Movement of India, a banned organisation and are acting as the main leaders of the Popular Front of India (for short, "PFI"). It is the case of the State that the editorial policy of Thejass is based on the ideology of PFI. The State version also shows that PFI has a clandestine agenda of islamisation of society by promoting conversion, communalisation of issues with a view to the benefit of Islam, recruitment and maintenan