( 1 ) THIS matter was received in this Court through a letter of the Registrar of the Honble Supreme Court. The said letter indicated that an Advocate, namely, miss M. S. Annaporani had complained to the Honble Supreme Court that a news item published in hitavada dated 30-7-89, told the story of man-handling and torture perpetrated upon one Smt. Santraji at the behest of one Paras Nath Yadav and some of his associates which was reprehensible and the said Advocate felt highly aggrieved and demanded suitable action against the perpetrators of the crime.

( 2 ) ACTING on the said letter, an investigation was directed to be conducted. Time was also granted to the learned Government Advocate to file a counter affidavit and inform this Court about the developments in the investigation all this has taken some time.

( 3 ) AT this stage it may be relevant to refer to the relevant portion of the news item :-"one version, colours the terrible outrage in communal hue. Santaraji Devi, the 30 year old social worker of the village Sourana was gang-raped and paraded naked because she had the audacity to marry a Muslim. So at least say some of the Muslims in this remote settlement 30