lN THE HIGH COURT OF SIKKiM ORDEFi SHEET Writ Petit.ion (C ....Anj.an..Upadh¥aya State Of .... No. 18 of 200 8 Petitioner / Appellant Anr.....................Bespondent Order with Signature 1. 21.7.0 Office Note as to action (if any) taken on Order Present: Mr. U.P. Sharma, Advocate for the Petitioner. Mr. S.P. Wangdi, Advocate General with Mr. tJ.B. Pradhan, Govt. Advocate for the State-Respondents. This is a wit petition at the instance of a news paper filed by the Editor of the said news paper. The grievance is inter alia that Government advertisements have been stopped from being sent for publication by the concerned newspaper in contl.avention of Government policy. It is alleged that riarassing defamation cases have been ffled against the newspaper; that there has been breahing in in the •newspaper office; that the vendors of the newspaper have been stopped from selling the Paper. On behalf of the respondents, it is numerous mistakes and deliberate distortions Serial Date Order with Signature Office Note as to No. of of action (if any) Order Order taken on Order in publications which had been followed by publishing corrigenda. The original items are published in large print and the corrigenda in small print. The newspaper is admittedly a CPM vehicle as stated in the petition itself. The Government has suspended giving all advertisements after a show ca.use and there aremanygoodgroundsforsuchsuspension.The Court cannot enter into the correctness of thisdecisionwhentheadministrativeprocedurehas been correctly followed. It is not possible for the Court to interfere with defamation cases whichhavebeen.ffledintheregularcourseandare pending trial. There is no proof whatsoever that any of the respondents is involved in any criminal activity or brealdng in or molestation of any newspaper vendors. On this basis the respondents prayed for summarily dismissal of the wit petition with exemplary costs.Weareoftheopinion that the respondents' submissions are sound. Although. exemplary costs need not be awarded, some costs should be awarded. The writ petition is S6ria Date Order with Signature Office Note as to No. of of action (if any) Order Order taken on Order summarily dismissed with costs of Rs.5,000/- III The Editor, Anjan Upadhyaya whose name appears as petitioner is directed to pay the costs to the.respondents within a period of one week . from the date hereof. (A.N. ay, CJ)(A.P.Subba,J)