The Madras High Court on Thursday dismissed a public interest litigation (PIL) that sought a direction to the Union government and the Press Council of India to ban a Tamil weekly and a daily for allegedly infringing the privacy of family of Ramkumar, suspect in the Swathi murder case. The Madurai Mavatta Devandrakula Velalar Uravinmurai Sangam wanted the court to pass an interim order directing the Tamil weekly ‘Nakkeeran’ and Tamil daily ‘Dina Thanthi’ to pay Rs. 10 lakh as compensation to the family members of Ramkumar. According to the petitioner, merely because Ramkumar belongs to the Schedule Caste community, correspondents from the two media entered into the suspect’s house without the consent of the family members and took photographs. Unfortunate crime Terming the murder as an unfortunate crime, the First Bench of Chief Justice S.K. Kaul and Justice R.