India, Feb. 5 -- The Madras High Court Tuesday criticised the Special Investigation Team (SIT) -of the Tamil Nadu police probing Anna University sexual assault case- for harassing journalists by summoning them and seizing their mobile phones before questioning police officers cops who authored and uploaded the FIR which was leaked in the case. How the FIR was leaked and hence the victim's identity was disclosed is part of the SIT's probe besides investigating the sexual assault of a 19-year-old student on campus by an outsider last December 23.

Justice GK Ilanthirayan directed the SIT -which was previously constituted by the court- to refrain from harassing journalists under the pretext of questioning them while also instructing journali...