The Supreme Court has granted interim protection from arrest to Marunadan Malayali editor Shajan Skaria while the Kerala High Court has noted that a journalist’s phone cannot be seized by the police in a case without following the legal procedure.
The Supreme Court directions came over a petition filed by Skaria seeking the quashing of an FIR filed under the SC/ST Act against him. It was issued hours before the high court’s observations in a petition filed by Mangalam Daily journalist G Visakhan, who alleged police harassment in the case against Skaria.
