The Supreme Court today stayed a Telangana High Court order which allowed the state police to take into custody two women journalists despite grant of bail to them in a case over alleged objectionable video against Chief Minister Revanth Reddy .

A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta passed the order, after hearing Senior Advocate Siddharth Dave (for petitioner-women journalists).

During the hearing, Dave argued that taking a person into police custody after grant of bail, without the bail having been cancelled, is not permissible. He submitted that an accused can be called by the police for the purpose of investigation, but not taken into custody while the bail is operating.

Hearing him, the bench issued notice to the respondent-State.

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