JUDGMENT - This is a petition under S.23, Press (Emergency Powers) Act. The petitioner before us is K. Nairendra, Printer and Publisher of the Urdu newspaper "The Daily Pratap" of New Delhi. The petitioner was ordered to deposit a security of Rs.5000 under S.9 (1), Press Act and the amount was deposited by the petitioner on 2nd June 1948. By his order No.F-8 11/48 Press, dated 10th December 1948, Mr. Shankar Parshad, Chief Commissioner of Delhi, forfeited the amount of the security because certain articles and news items published in a number of issues of the Daily Pratap came within the mischief of S.4(1), Press Act. The offending material was printed in seven different issues of the newspaper. Of these five are news items and two are editorial comments. It was alleged that the subject-matter of these articles and news items fell within Cls. (b),(d) and (h) of S.4(1), Press Act. The petitioners application is directed against the order of forfeiture passed by the Chief Commissioner of Delhi and it is contended in the petition that the articles and news items objected to are harmless and they do not come within the purview of S.4 (1), Cls.(b),(d) and (h), Press Act and in any case

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