1. In these writ petitions, certain submissions have been attributed to the learned Attorney General for India which were not made in the Court and certain observations have also been attributed to this Court, which too were not made.
2. We issue notice to The Sangai Express, through its editor, Rajesh Hijem, The Imphal Free Press, through its editor, Pradip Phanjoubam, the Mail Today, through its Editor-in-Chief, Sagarika Dubey, The Naharolgi Thoudang, through its editor, Khoirom Loyalakpa and Harish V. Nair, who has written these articles in The Sangai Express and the Mail Today to explain the circumstances in which the statements attributed to the learned Attorney General for India and to this Court were made.
3. Let notice be issued returnable on 8-1-2016.
4. The newspaper reports containing the statements attributed to the learned Attorney General and to this Court are marked as Annexure A collectively.
5. The individual newspaper report will be sent along with the notice.
6. Arguments heard in part.
7. List the matter tomorrow (10-12-2015) at 10.30 a.m. as part-heard matter.