Hindustan Times, 3rd May 2014, Chandigarh Edition
Ignored orders of not allowing hoardings by side of roads in Panchkula
The Punjab and Haryana high court on Friday summoned Haryana roadways general manager Rohtash Kumar for violation of court orders of not allowing hoardings by the side of roads in Panchkula.
The court also summoned a vernacular reporter for explanation on the next date, May 30, about the allegations of road safety exper t Navdeep Asija that the reporter was trying to manage him and had also published misleading a news report on April 19.
Asija on Friday submitted in the court headed by justice Rajive Bhalla that the newspaper report described that the measurement of roundabouts in Panchkula by him (Asija) were wrong. Asija was earlier directed by the high court to carry out a study on advertising sites in around 18 cities and submit his report.
Asija submitted that the wrong facts were produced in news in order to derail the ongoing process for some specific and vested interests.
He informed the court that there was an apparent connivance between Ashok, proprietor of advertising company Taksh Media, and the reporter.
He also added that the reporter used to call him time and again to get the final copy of the report about the survey of advertising sites.
Asija further alleged that the reporter was earlier working with an English newspaper (not Hindustan Times) and it was due to the constant unethical practices that he was expelled from the newspaper. He prayed for taking action against the reporter and the newspaper for publishing an unverified article.
The petitioner Bhupinder Singh had highlighted the issue by placing on record photographs of various neon boards and hoardings facing the highways and main roads put up by the authorities in Gurgaon in blatant violation of the Supreme Court as well as the high court directions, which were one of the causes for distraction of drivers and road accidents.
A number of advertising companies had later moved the court that if their advertisements put after tendering process were to be removed then they should be allotted alternate site.
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