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...with the publication of the autobiography of the condemned prisoner, Auto Shankar, in their magazine. Certain other reliefs are prayed for in the writ petition but they are not pressed before us....3. Shankar @ Gauri Shankar @ Auto Shankar was charged and tried for as many as six murders. He was convicted and sentenced to death by the learned Sessions Judge, Chenglepat on 31...consideration.4. The petitioners have come forward with the following case: Auto Shankar wrote his autobiography running into 300 pages while confined in Chenglepat sub-jail during...
...or person of the detenu by name Shankar @ Auto Shankar, S/o Veerachamy, aged 32 years, now detained at Trichy Central Prison, before this Court and set him at liberty...challenging the detention order dated 20..208 passed by the 2ndrespondent in and by which the 2ndrespondent detained the detenu, Shankar @ Auto Shankar, S/o Veerachamy, aged 32 years....08/208 dated 20..208 is quashed and the detenu Shankar @ Auto Shankar, S/o Veerachamy, aged 32 years, now detained at Trichy Central Prison, is directed to be released forthwith unless his presence...
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3. The case of the prosecution in brief is that in the month of August 1990 this accused along with other co-accused conspired in assisting the accused Shankar @ Auto Shanker (who was subsequently...been executed) and A4 to A8 who are the associates of the above said executed accused Auto Shankar to make good their escape from the central prison and this accused who is ranked A5 an ex-employee of...prisoners were lodged on the day of occurrence. He has also deposed to the effect that when roll call was taken on 21.8.1990 at about 6.00 am it was brought to the notice that A1, A2, Auto Shankar (deceased...
...(482-)
BETWEEN:
1. AUTO SHANKAR
AGE 40 YEARS, OCC AGRICULTURE,
R/O GANGAVATHI, TQ GANGAVATHI...
...
BETWEEN:
AUTO SHANKAR S/O LACHAMAPPA @ LAKSHMAPPA,
AGE. 43 YEARS, OCC. SELF EMPLOYED,
R/O. KILLA AREA GANGAVATHI...
...,
R/O. KATAMMADEVARAKOTE, CHITRADURGA, PRESENTLY R/O. AUTO SHANKAR STAND, NEAR
DONGE PARK, NITTUVALLI ROAD, DAVANGERE.
... APPELLANT...
...(482-)
BETWEEN:
1. AUTO SHANKAR LACHAMAPPA @ LAKSHMANA
AGE. 40 YEARS, OCC. AGRICULTURE,
R/O. MAHABOOB NAGAR...
...2022 (482-)
BETWEEN:
1. AUTO SHANKAR ALIAS SHANKARLINGAPPA S/O
LACHAMAPPA, AGE. 42 YEARS,
OCC. SELF EMPLOYED, R/O...
...2022 (482-)
BETWEEN:
1. AUTO SHANKAR S/O LACHAMAPPA ALIAS LAXMAPPA
AGE. 36 YEARS, OCC. SELF EMPLOYED
R/O...
...2022 (482-)
BETWEEN:
1. AUTO SHANKAR S/O. LACHAMAPPA ALIAS
LAKSHMAPPA, AGE. 36 YEARS,
OCC. SELF EMPLOYED, R/O...
...the learned senior counsel for the appellant was the judgment of the Supreme Court in the case of Auto Shankar reported in R. Rajgopal v. State of...the citizens of this country and the parameters of the right of press to criticise and comment on acts and conduct of public officials. The case related to the alleged autobiography of Auto Shankar, who...was convicted and sentenced to death for 6 murders. The issue arose because in the alleged autobiography Auto Shankar had commented on the conduct and relationship with various police officials. It...
...T.N (1994) 6 SCC 632 (popularly known as Auto Shankar case) and People's...
...criticize and comment on acts and conduct of public officials. The case related to the alleged autobiography of Auto Shankar who was convicted and sentenced to death for committing six murders. In the...autobiography, he had commented on his contact and relations with various police officials. It was the stand of the police that the autobiography was not authored by Auto Shankar. It was stated that...neither Auto Shankar nor his wife were made parties before the Supreme Court in the writ petition filed under Article 32 of the Constitution. The right of privacy of citizens was...
...Auto Shankar, who was convicted and sentenced to death for committing six murders. In the autobiography, he had commented on his contact and relations with various Police officials. It was the stand of...the Police that the autobiography was not authored by Auto Shankar. It was stated that neither Auto Shankar nor his wife were made parties before the Supreme Court in the Writ Petition filed under...
...years and hence he is arguing only for the question of sentence.
5. Added further the learned Senior Counsel that the main accused in the case was Shankar @ Auto Shankar; that the main...persons were teasing the girl known to the prime accused Auto Shankar with whom the appellant has joined; that even as per the evidence of the so-called witnesses namely P.Ws.3, 4, 5, 9, 14 and 20, they...case of the prosecution is that those three deceased belonged to Mandaveli area, Chennai, and they used to visit Raj Mahal Hotel where the prostitutes supplied by Auto Shankar, used to spend time in...
...officials”. The case related to Auto Shankar, a notorious criminal, who was on death row, having been convicted for having committed as many as six murders. At the time when the judgment was delivered by...the Supreme Court, the mercy petition of Auto Shankar was pending before the President of India. During his incarceration, Auto Shankar penned his autobiography, and requested his advocate to ensure...autobiography, however, allegedly exposed the close nexus between Auto Shankar and several IAS, IPS and other officers, some of whom he also accused of complicity in the crimes committed by him. It also...
...R. Rajagopal alias R.R Gopal and another v. State of T.N and others, 1994 (6) SCC 632. That was a case relating to one Auto Shankar, who was convicted for six murders a...to be the life story/autobiography of Auto Shankar insofar as it appears from the public records, even without his consent or authorisation. But, if they go beyond that and publish his life story, they...
...;
3. R.Rajagopal @ R.R.Gopal and another v. State of Tamil Nadu and others (Auto Shankar), (1994...the Hon'ble Supreme Court in Auto Shankar, wherein the standard formulated in New York Times v. L.B. Sullivan (New York Times...adopted by the Supreme Court in Auto Shankar and, thereafter, cited with approval by the Division Bench of this Court in Rajagopal and by the Delhi High Court in Greenpeace...
...of the autobiography of one Auto Shankar who was convicted for 6 murders and was sentenced to death and who had written his autobiography in jail and has handed over the same to his wife with the...and announced the same in their magazine. The Inspector General of Prisons wrote a letter to the Petitioners alleging that the serial in question was not written by Auto Shankar and asking the...
...and hence he is arguing only for the question of sentence.
5.Added further the learned Senior Counsel that the main accused in the case was Shankar @ Auto Shankar; that the main...stick and that too, without any motive; that the three deceased persons were teasing the girl known to the prime accused Auto Shankar with whom the appellant has joined; that even as per the evidence of...Mahal Hotel where the prostitutes supplied by Auto Shankar, used to spend time in moneymaking with the customers. Thus the three namely Sampath, Mohan and Govindaraj used to commit nuisance, which...