New Delhi, Aug. 26 -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted protection from arrest to a journalist who claimed he was implicated in a false case by the Uttar Pradesh police after his report exposed irregularities in the donations received at Ayodhya Ram Temple, sparking a controversy that has embarrassed the state and Union governments and necessitated changes in the trust that runs the temple. Issuing notice to the Uttar Pradesh government to respond by September 7, a bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) said, "meanwhile, no coercive action shall be taken against the petitioner in the FIRs already registered or such FIRs to be registered." The order came on a petition filed by Abhishek Upadhyay who sought protection from arrest in a case of alleged road rage where he was accused of roughing up a motorist near Indirapuram in Ghaziabad. The court noted that multiple FIRs against him gave rise to an apprehension of arrest and said that on September 7, it will permit the petitioner to approach the Allahabad high court having jurisdiction over the crime....