New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed a Telangana High Court order that upheld police custody of two women journalists booked for alleged circulation of a video with “derogatory” comments against Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on a social media platform.

A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta agreed to hear the plea challenging the high court’s October 13 order and sought a response from the state of Telangana.

“Issue notice, returnable in four weeks. In the meantime, the effect and operation of the impugned order shall remain stayed,” the bench said.

Senior advocate Siddharth Dave and advocate P Mohith Rao appeared for petitioners Pogadadabnda Revathi and Bandi Sandhya.

Revathi is the Managing Director of Pulse News, and Sandhya is its reporter.

The plea said

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