Mediagazer: Delhi gang-rape: Foreign journalists to move High Court after being barred from trial (Pallavi Polanki/Firstpost)

8:55 AM ET, May 3, 2013

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Delhi gang-rape: Foreign journalists to move High Court after being barred from trial — New Delhi: — A little over a month after the ban on the media to the report on the Delhi gang-rape trial was lifted by the Delhi High Court, a fast-track court hearing the case has barred foreign journalists from covering the proceedings.

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