On Tuesday, the Supreme Court stayed the arrest of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor and six journalists including Rajdeep Sardesai and Vinod K Jose, in the controversial case where they were booked under charges of sedition for tweets related to farmers’ tractor rally on Republic Day.
A bench headed by Chief Justice SA Bobde issued notices and sought responses from the Union government and others on the petitions filed by Tharoor and journalists Rajdeep Sardesai, Mrinal Pande, Zafar Agha, Paresh Nath, Vinod K Jose and Anant Nath.
When the bench said it was issuing notice in the matter, senior lawyer Kapil Sibal, appearing for Shashi Tharoor, said that no coercive action be taken against the petitioners in the meantime.
“Nothing is going to happen. Where is the danger,” said the Bench, also comprising Justices AS Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian. We will hear you after two weeks and stay the arrest in the meanwhile, the Bench said.