Overview

• Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta stayed the High Court’s October 13 order and directed the state to respond within four weeks.
• Pogadadabnda Revathi, managing director of Pulse News, and reporter Bandi Sandhya are the petitioners challenging the custody order.
• The journalists were granted bail on March 17, after which a Nampally sessions judge on September 26 allowed police custody for October 13–15 that the High Court later upheld.
• Police told the courts they sought custody to seize mobile phones, laptops, desktops, hard disks and other storage devices tied to the alleged video.
• The petition asserts custody is impermissible while bail stands, notes claimed cooperation with investigators, and cites an FIR under IT Act Section 67 and multiple BNS provisions.