New Delhi: Restraining coercive motion on a part of the Andhra Pradesh authorities towards two Telugu information channels, the Supreme Court on Monday mentioned “it is time we define the limits of sedition”.
Justice DY Chandrachud of the apex courtroom noticed “the Andhra Pradesh government’s act of filing sedition cases against the channels is muffling channels”, including it’s time the courtroom defines sedition”.
The apex courtroom’s statement got here as the 2 channels had been charged in an FIR with sedition allegedly for airing the feedback of YSR Congress insurgent MP Kanumuri Raghurama Krishnam Raju, who had lashed out on the state authorities over its dealing with of the Covid pandemic.
TV 5 and ABN Andhra Jyoti moved the apex courtroom stating the state authorities had violated a latest courtroom order that restrained the governments from punishing residents for flagging Covid-19 associated grievances.
The apex courtroom bench additionally comprising Justice L. Nageswara Rao and Justice S. Ravindra Bhat sought the Andhra Pradesh authorities’s response inside 4 weeks on the pleas of the 2 channels.
Expressing a prima facie view that FIRs are an try to “muzzle media freedom”, the apex courtroom additionally categorically said that there shall be no coercive motion towards the workers or the staffers of the 2 information channels.
