IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.35641 of 2008 Ranjit Kumar Singh @ Gulshan, Son of Sri Sidheshwari Prasad Sinha, Gajoaj Ganj, PS Muffasil, Arrah, District Bhojpur (Arrah) ---- Petitioner Versus State Of Bihar ---- Opposite party ----------- 2 14.7.2011 This application has been filed against the order dated 24.7.2008 by which the court has rejected the prayer of the petitioner to exhibit a newspaper as evidence. The ground for exhibiting the newspaper, according to the defence is that it would indicate that the person/victim or persons of the other side had a bad character in the locality. From the impugned order, it appears that defence has been permitted to exhibit two F.I.Rs. in order to bring home the point that the opposite party had criminal antecedent. I do not find any merit in the petition of the defence to exhibit the newspaper as it is not a public document nor can the contents considered to be sacrosanct for the purpose of treating the contents as evidence in the case. This application is dismissed. Sanjay ( Sheema Ali Khan, J.)