NEW DELHI: The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court issued contempt notices to Union Home Secretary Anil Goswami and Information and Broadcasting Secretary, Bimal Julka for not following its orders.

Justice Ajai Lamba issued this notice on the contempt petition filed by social activist Dr. Nutan Thakur against not following the orders issued by the bench of Justice Uma Nath Singh and Justice Mahendra Dayal who had directed them to decide Thakur's representations within four weeks.

The representations related to framing guideline to direct the newspaper publishers and news channel broadcasters to keep record of their newspapers for a definite period.

The plea was also that these records be provided to those asking for them on a nominal fee and to take specific names of the newspapers and news channels being referred to in their news instead of using cryptic words like one newspaper or one news channel.