High Court declines Y S Jagan’s media campaign petition

YSR Congress Party chief, Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy’s petition to campaign for the upcoming by-election via electronic media was declined by the High Court on Thursday.  Y S Jagan’s petition was a plea to the high court to allow him to communicate to the people through electronic and print media for the upcoming by-election and this petition was filed, under the Right to Expression Act under Article (1) (A) and Article 21,  on Wednesday.  The high court decided that this petition required further probing as YS Jagan is in jail not for a political crime but under a disproportionate assets case and has therefore postponed further hearing on the petition to the 21^st of June. In the meantime, the high court has ordered the CBI to come up with a counter petition within 2 weeks.