Arrested journalist Prashant Kanojia’s wife Jagisha Arora filed a habeas corpus plea in the Supreme Court on Monday. The vacation bench of Justices Indira Banerjee and Ajay Rastogi will hear the petition on Tuesday. Kanojia, 26, was picked up by Uttar Pradesh police from his Noida home on Saturday afternoon and taken to Lucknow. The FIR revealed that he was arrested for posting "aapattijanak tippani (objectionable comments) on Twitter" to defame the Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath. Kanojia had commented on a Hindi video in which a woman was seen speaking to journalists about her affection for the Uttar Pradesh chief minister and requesting a meeting with him.

Source: The Telegraph June 10, 2019 14:03 UTC