The Supreme Court on Saturday granted activist Teesta Setalvad a week's protection from arrest by staying a Gujarat High Court order directing her to surrender immediately.Setalvad was asked to "surrender immediately" by the Gujarat .
A bench of justices Abhay S Oka and Prashant Kumar Mishra, which heard the matter in a special hearing, urged the Chief Justice of India to assign the matter to a larger bench.
In a special late-night hearing, a bench of Justices B R Gavai, A S Bopanna and Dipankar Datta questioned the denial of time to Setalvad to appeal against the HC order, saying even an ordinary criminal is entitled to some form of interim relief.
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