Hyderabad, March 6 -- The Madras High Court, on Thursday, March 6, ordered the Union government to lift the ban imposed on Vikatan, a Tamil-language weekly magazine, whose website was blocked after it posted a cartoon showing Prime Minister Narendra Modi in chains with the United States President Donald Trump sitting besides him.

The cartoon was published on February 10 on Vikatan's website and social media accounts soon after the Indian prime minister's first visit to Trump after the latter became the President of the United States for the second time in January.

The cartoon seemingly alluded to Modi's silence on the issue of US authorities handcuffing and deporting illegal immigrants back to India.

Advocate Vijay Narayan, who represe...