In a relief to senior journalist Vinod Dua, the Supreme Court in a special hearing on Sunday restrained the Himachal Pradesh police from arresting him till "further orders" in a sedition case filed against him by a local BJP leader over his YouTube show.

The top court, however, refused to stay the ongoing probe and said Dua will have to join the probe "through video-conferencing or online mode" as offered by him in his response to the summons issued by the police seeking his personal appearance.