Chennai: Taking a serious note of publication of photographs of accused in the alleged honour killing of a Dalit youth in the media despite court orders against such practice, the Madras High Court today sought an explanation from Tamil Nadu government.

Taking suo motu cognisance of the matter, a division bench, comprising Justice M Jaichandran and Justice S Nagamuthu, pulled up the police for releasing to the media photographs of the accused in the brutal murder in Udumalpet in Tirupur district, and said "we intended to issue contempt notice."