Ranjit Singh, J.

Much of the sheen relating to norms of covering court proceedings in a pending case by Media is taken away in view of the pronouncement of the Hon'ble Supreme Court in recent decision titled Sahara India Real Estate Corp. Ltd. & Ors. v. Securities & Exchange Board of India & Anr., 2012(4) R.C.R. (Civil) 801. Considering that still there may be some scope left in this regard, I have decided to express myself in this case where this court by taking suo-motu notice had put some of the Newspapers in the region to respond.

2. The issue primarily arose from a news item covered by Times of India dated March 2, 2009, where opinionated news was regularly seen in a case which was listed before this Court. It was noticed that such news item appeared a day prior to the date fixed for hearing of the case listed before the Bench. This case was to come up before this court on 2.3.2009 and on the same day the news appeared in the Times of India, Chandigarh Edition under the heading "Haryana for mine auction, but its plea admits pitfalls". In this News item, the stand of the Haryana Government was reflected and commented upon. News item starts by mentioning that "Haryana Go