"Next, Sedition Case For This TV Channel?": Top Judge's Scathing Remark

The exchange came hours before a bench including the same two judges put on hold Andhra Pradesh's action against two Telugu news channels, and said: "It's time we define limits of sedition"

During a hearing on the centre's oft-criticised vaccination policy, Supreme Court Justices DY Chandrachud and L Nageswara Rao on Monday referred to visuals aired by NDTV of a dead body - a suspected COVID-19 patient - being dumped into a river in Uttar Pradesh. Justice Chandrachud and Justice Rao referred to that horrific sight as part of a sarcastic exchange to underline their displeasure at the many sedition cases filed recently, including one by the Andhra Pradesh government against two news channels for airing the comments of a rebel MP. "Yesterday we saw pictures of a dead body being thrown in a river," Justice Rao observed. "Yes. There was a picture of body being thrown into river. I do not know whether complaint of sedition (has been) filed against the news channel for showing it," Justice Chandrachud replied.