NDTV moves High Court to interview Nalini CHENNAI: A New Delhi-based television channel has filed a writ petition in the Madras High Court seeking to quash an order of the Superintendent of the Special Prison for Women, Vellore, denying permission to interview Nalini, a life convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.  The channel sought a direction to prison authorities to permit the channel to interview her and telecast it.

In its petition, New Delhi Television Ltd, said media, both print and visual, had aired the views of political leaders and the general public with regard to the premature release of Nalini. However, Nalini had not had the opportunity to express her response. When the channel sought permission to interview her, it was refused by an order dated February 8 without assigning any valid reason beyond stating that jail rules permitted an interview only with relatives, friends and legal advisers.  Nalini, in a telegram to her advocate, informed him that she had sent a telegram to the High Court stating that she had not given consent to any media [for an interview].