Jammu,March 29(Scoop News) -The Editor of Daily The Northlines, R. S Gill today presented himself before the Speaker J&K Legislature Assembly in his chamber in compliance to breach of privilege notice given by Harsh Dev Singh, MLA Ramnagar.
R. S Gill the editor of North Lines while talking to this correspondent told that the speaker, Mohd. Akbar Lone, read the contents of the privilege notice to the editor, in the presence of Harsh Dev Singh, MLA, Minister of Higher Education, Abdul Gani Malik and Khwaja Farooq Renzu, the Director of Information and M Ramzan, the Secretary of J&K Legislative Assembly.
The Editor of The Northlines reaffirmed and stood by the story published in Daily The Northlines on March 25,2010.
It may be mentioned here that The Jammu & Kashmir Assembly had issued a breach privilege notice to the chief Editor of English Daily The North lines, for carrying a news item captioned ,‘Best Legislator’ Vs Upright Principal.
The chief editor of the Northlines was asked to respond to the notice by presenting himself on March 29 at 2 pm in the office chambers of Speaker.”
The notice,under no LA-2945-46,dated 26-3-2010 was served to the Chief editor of North lines on March 26 through information department , after the breach of priviladge notice given by Harash Dev Singh MLA against the chief editor of daily The North Lines Jammu for its news item captioned Best Legislator’ Vs Upright Principal carried by it on March 25,2010