New Delhi: Expressing concern over the ‘survey’ income tax is done in the office two news sites, guild editor criticized India on Saturday said the move was a “dangerous trend of government agents who harass and intimidate” independent media should be stopped because it undermines constitutional democracy.
On September 10, these IT officials visited NewsClick and Newslaundry offices and conducted investigations throughout the day, the body recorded.
Guild said it was very disturbed about I-T ‘Surveys’ in the second office of the news website.
“The guild is very concerned that the seizure of unrequited journalist data, which can include sensitive information such as source details, stories under work and other journalistic data, violating freedom of speech and press freedom,” he said in an official statement.
While they were officially labeled as a survey by I-T officials, according to a statement issued by Abhinandan Sekhri, Co-Founder from Newslaundry, this was a clear and latent attack on their rights and hence a press dispute, said Egi.
“Learned that the IT team made clones from cellphones and laptops Sekhri, as well as several other office machines, and there was no hash value given to them.” It is clearly outside the service mandate as defined below section 133 A under it income tax law that only allows data related to investigations to be copied, and of course not personal and professional journalist data.
It also violated the procedure that was arranged in the 2000 Information Technology Act, “he said.
This is the second visit by the Income Tax Team in the newslaundry office, which was previously in June -home journalists and their senior officials in February.
“Good Newsclick and NewsLaundry have criticized the government’s policies and functioning of the uS,” said EGI.
“dangerous trend from government agencies to harass and intimidate independent media should be stopped because of damage to our constitutional democracy,” He said, it added that in July, income tax attacks were carried out at the leading newspaper of the Dainac Bhaskar State and Lucknow Bharat SamaChar-based news channel.
This raid was carried out against the background of some very important coverage by the two news organizations on the handling of government pandemics.
“Persuy An demanding that very large care of ND sensitivity is shown in all these investigations so that it does not damage the right of journalists and media organizations.
Furthermore, to ensure that such an investigation was carried out in the rules specified and that they did not fall into an instrument of harassment to intimidate independent media, “said Egi.