SC stays court’s gag order on ex-MP’s murder | India News

VIJAYAWADA: Terming it a violation of the principles of natural justice, Supreme Court stayed on Friday an Andhra Pradesh court’s gag order restraining anyone from speaking in public on the 2019 murder of former Congress MP Y S Vivekananda Reddy .
The bench of Justices BR Gavai and Sandeep Mehta said Kadapa district court’s order doesn’t stand the test as the “other side” didn’t get a hearing before their right to free speech was curtailed.
Kadapa district court had passed an interim order based on a petition filed by a YSRCP district president. State Congress chief YS Sharmila and the late Vivekananda Reddy’s daughter, Dr Suneetha Narreddy, challenged it in AP HC .