The Supreme Court has reprimanded the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court for quashing criminal proceedings registered against a YouTuber in a hurry, without giving adequate time for the investigating agency to probe the charges
Supreme Court bench comprising Justices L Nageswara Rao and B R Gavai, heard the case related to the demolition drive in Jahangirpuri at 11 am today. “The Court said that they will take serious view on the fact that the court order was not followed and demolition continued yesterday.
Hegde had in his plea also sought the court’s direction to the Centre to frame guidelines to ensure that online speech is not arbitrarily censored by social media websites such as the one run by Twitter.