Supreme court stays sentencing of Mid Day journalists

New Delhi, Sep 28 (IANS) The Supreme Court Friday stayed the Delhi High Court order sentencing four employees of the tabloid Mid-Day to jail for publishing news reports about former chief justice Y.K. Sabharwal.

The apex court stayed the high court's Sep 21 ruling sentencing two journalists, a cartoonist and the publisher of the afternoon tabloid to four months imprisonment each for contempt of court following news reports suggesting that Justice Sabharwal, as the chief justice, had passed orders favouring his sons, who are close associates of mall developers, during the sealing of commercial property in the capital.

Those sentenced were the resident editor Vitusha Oberoi, city editor M.K. Tayal, publisher A.K. Akhtar and cartoonist Irfan.