The petition filed by two lawyers, challenging a district court's order invoking in-camera or in private proceedings in the Delhi gangrape case will come up for hearing today. The Metropolitan Magistrate, Namrita Aggarwal, had on Monday granted the Delhi Police's request to hear the rape case in-camera and prohibit the media from reporting on the legal proceedings without permission of the court. The order was passed following commotion in the courtroom on the day when the five accused were to be produced in court. The petitioners have called the Delhi gangrape case as one that "shook the conscience of the nation" and a "symbol of a movement" to protect women's rights.

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