The Supreme Court has stayed Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal ,TDSAT's order, which had quashed the sector regulator TRAI's circular limiting the number of SMSes to 200 per day per SIM.

In a brief hearing on Monday, a bench headed by Justice G S Singhvi stayed the tribunal's order and issued notice to late Bal Thackeray's grandson Aditya on whose plea TDSAT had passed the order.

The apex court passed the order on an appeal filed by TRAI challenging tribunal's order and asked Thackeray to respond to regulator's plea within six weeks.

With today's stay order, the sector regulator can enforce the circular till the apex court vacates its stay on the verdict by the TDSAT.

TDSAT had on July 17th termed the ceiling on SMSes as arbitrary and against the right of freedom of speech and expression guaranteed under the Constitution and had set aside the sector regulator TRAI's circular.