The Supreme Court gives interim protection to Rajya Sabha MP Sasikala Pushpa and her family for six weeks in a sexual harassment case lodged by her maid. The court stopped her arrest saying she was an MP and would not run away.

Sasikala's maid had filed a sexual harassment complaint against her and her family. The domestic servants, who reportedly worked at Sasikala's house in Tamil Nadu, had filed a police complaint alleging that they were tortured by them.

Sasikala, who reportedly slapped DMK MP Trichy Siva at Delhi airport recently, was expelled from AIADMK on August 1 by party chief J Jayalalithaa on grounds of violating party principles and ethics and bringing disrepute to the party.

Sasikala had broken down in the Rajya Sabha just minutes before Jayalalithaa announced her ouster, and had said she was facing a "life theat" and that she was being forced to resign.