New Delhi: Putting a premium over the right of free speech and expression, the Supreme Court on Friday ordered the release of Srinivasa Rao of Sakshi TV anchor, which was organized by Andhra Police to end alleged derogatory and defamation statements by a panelist in his live show on Amravati. Justices Mishra and Manmohan said, “Rao has not made a statement. Their journalism participation in a live TV show should be preserved, because as their fundamental right for free speech. Rao will be released on bail on the terms being imposed by the trial court.”The guest is called Amravati as the ‘capital of sex workers’On 6 June, political analyst VVR Krishnamraju appeared as a panelist on a show on Sakshi TV, which was considered a mouthpiece of the opposition YSR Congress Party, while the government revoked the Amravati capital project of the previous TDP dispensation, and referred to the capital as the ‘capital of sex workers’.Looking for 70 -year -old Rao, senior advocate Siddharth Dave told a bench of Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra and Manmohan that he was only hosting the TV show and the statement is not responsible for him, but for a panelist, who had no control.Opposing the petition challenging the arrest, senior advocates Mukul Rohtgi and Siddharth Luthra said that when a derogatory and derogatory statement was made against the women of Andhra Pradesh, the TV anchor, the panelist was seen laughing rather than stopping.The bench sought a response to the AP government’s petition, in which deodar was harvested against him. However, it warned Rao not to include himself in any defamation statement or allow any panelist to make such a statement in a live TV show.
