Go back to the newspaper vendor. That was the irate Supreme Court’s directive to a petitioner who wanted a copy of the Times of India with all its supplements.
A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta came up with the advice and asked petitioner GS Rathore to tell his newspaper vendor to provide him all the supplements of the daily.
The bench questioned how a writ petition would lie against the Times of India.
“How does a writ (petition) lie against The Times of India? Is the Times of India a State so that we can entertain a writ petition against it?” the bench observed sarcastically.
