New Delhi

A bench headed by Justice U U Lalit, in a hearing conducted through video conferencing, restrained the Himachal Pradesh police from arresting Dua in the case and decided to hear the journalist's plea next Wednesday. 

It also said that Dua, who has joined the police probe through a virtual medium, is not required to answer supplementary questions of police in the case. 

Earlier, the top court had assembled on a Sunday and had granted protection from arrest to Dua till "further orders" in the sedition case. 

An FIR against Dua under IPC provisions for offenses of sedition, public nuisance, printing defamatory materials and public mischief was lodged by BJP leader Shyam at Kumarsain police station in Shimla district on May 6 and the journalist was asked to join the probe

Shyam has alleged that Dua, in his program, accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of using "deaths and terror attacks" to get votes.

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