The Supreme Court Friday asked the Centre to issue a direction to all television channels to restrain from telecasting the objectionable photograph of Bollywood starlet Monica Bedi [Images], shot allegedly by a hidden camera when she was lodged in a Bhopal jail in connection with a passport forgery case.

A bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan gave liberty to her to implead the news channel which had telecast a news item relating to the photograph. In the petition, she had sought a direction for the information and broadcasting ministry for restraining the television channels from airing her objectionable photograph.

Senior advocate K T S Tulsi submitted before the bench that a private channel had showed the objectionable photograph of the actress, shot by a camera installed in the jail bathroom.

The actress was acquitted by a Bhopal court in the passport forgery case on July 16. She was released on July 25 from a Hyderabad jail after getting bail from a court there in a similar case.