‘Look out circulars can’t continue in perpetuity’: Delhi HC to CBI in NDTV founders’ plea against LOCs

Hearing a plea moved by NDTV founders Prannoy Roy and Radhika Roy seeking quashing of look out circulars (LOCs) issued against them based on a CBI probe, the Delhi High Court on Friday said that an LOC cannot continue in perpetuity.

A single judge bench of Justice Prathiba Singh was hearing the NDTV founders’ plea when their counsel submitted that on June 1, 2022, the high court had permitted the Roys to travel abroad in August and that they had returned to India.

The CBI’s counsel submitted that the look out circulars are still subsisting. It was submitted that there were two FIRs/regular cases (RC) which have been filed in two years,