Top Court Bars Arrest Of Shashi Tharoor, 6 Journalists In Sedition Case

Tuesday, 9 February 2021Newsdesk

The Supreme Court today barred any agency from arresting Congress MP Shashi Tharoor and six journalists in cases relating to their tweets in connection with the Republic Day tractor rally violence in New Delhi. The cases will be taken up for hearing after two weeks, the court said.

New Delhi, 09 February 2021

While Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Delhi police, opposed any relief and wanted the case to be adjourned to tomorrow, defence counsel Kapil Sibal sought an order saying "no coercive action till the Supreme Court takes up the case". "We are issuing notice...nothing is going to happen," the three-judge bench of Chief Justice Sharad A Bobde and Justices AS Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian said. It was hearing petitions filed by Mr Tharoor, along with those of journalists Rajdeep Sardesai, Mrinal Pande, Zafar Agha, Vinod K Jose, Paresh Nath, and Anant Nath, seeking the quashing of police cases against them.

Source -NDTV