Supreme Court has stayed the arrest of Congress leader Shashi Tharoor and senior journalists

Supreme Court has stayed the arrest of Congress leader Shashi Tharoor and senior journalists. Among the people who have been granted relief by the top court are journalists Rajdeep Sardesai, Anant Nath, Paresh Nath, Vinod Jose, Mrinal Pandey, Zafar Aga, besides Congress leader Shashi Tharoor. Now the arrest of all these has been stayed by the court. Apart from this, the Supreme Court has also issued a notice on the demand for cancellation of FIRs registered in other states including UP.

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor and 6 journalists were booked for misleading tweets during a tractor rally on 26 January in Delhi. While hearing this today, the Supreme Court has stopped the arrest of these people till the next hearing. The next hearing will be two weeks later.

A three-judge bench of Chief Justice SA Bobde, Justice AS Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian heard the matter. In the petition filed on behalf of Shashi Tharoor, Rajdeep Sardesai, Mrinal Pandey, Zafar Agha, Vinod K Jose, Paresh Nath, Anant Nath and the police case against them were sought to be abolished.

Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing on behalf of the petitioners, said, "What have they done to accuse them of treason?" On this, Mehta protested, saying that the wrong tweet by these people about the death of the farmer due to the bullet had a terrible effect during the violence, while the farmer died due to injuries in the accident.