New Delhi: The press corps of Indian women (IWPC) has stated “shock and anxiety” in journalists and around a hundred other people ordered by Tripura police under the law prevention of law (UPA) and demanded that allegations postponed without delay.
“Indian women’s press corps was surprised and disappointed with the actions of Tripura police booking Shyam Meerera Singh’s journalist under UPA along with someone else Highlight and present the image of the correct event.
Not a journalist assignment to please the ruling people, “the statement issued by IWPC.
He claimed the accusation of UFA to Shyam Meera Singh was an attempt to silence reporters by misusing the law.
“IWPC demands that all the allegations be drawn immediately and the media are allowed to do their work freely,” said the statement.
Earlier on Sundays, the Guild Editor India (EGI) also condemned police action.
Police in Tripura on Saturday ordered 102 social media account holders under the UPA, criminal conspiracy and forgery fees and serving notifications to Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube authorities to freeze their accounts.
This action came after Tripura police registered a case against four Supreme Court lawyers under strict law and various parts of the Indian criminal code for allegedly promoting communal disharmony by posting their social media in recent violence in the country.
Guild said one of the journalists, Shyam Meerera Singh, had alleged that he had been ordered under UFA because only Tweeting ‘Tripura was burned’.
“This is a very disturbing trend in which a hard law, where in the process of investigating and application guarantees is very tight and arrogant, used only to report and protest communal violence.
Guilds argue that this is an effort by the state government to divert attention from His own failure to control the violence of the majority, and to take action against the perpetrators of this.
The government cannot use strict laws such as UPA to suppress the incidents, “he said.
The state government on October 29 alleged that a group from outside with personal interests had hatched conspiracy against the government to create riots in Tripura and slandered the picture by uploading fake photos from social mosques on social media.
(With agency input)