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Gujarat cops book journos for writing against boss
Published on Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 03:15 in Nation section
Tags: Narendra Modi, Journalists , Ahmedabad
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Ahmedabad: The Gujarat goverment has booked two journalists of The Times of India under the charge of waging war against the state for a series of article the newspaper published against Ahmedabad Police Commissioner O Mathur.
Within days of O P Mathur taking over as the Police Commissioner of Ahmedabad, the newspaper ran a series of articles on his alleged links with the underworld. Mathur filed a complaint and the reporter and the resident editor of the paper in Ahmedabad have now been booked.
The daily alleges the charges have been filed to harass the journalists. “Mathur has a poor record. When he was the head of CID, he tried to favour the state in the Sohrabuddin case,” alleged reporter Prashant Dayal.
Bharat Desai, resident editor of the daily, alleged Mathur had a sexual harassment case pending against him.
On Friday, the police in Ahmedabad booked sociologist Ashish Nandy for allegedly writing a derogatory article in the same paper in January this year. The complainant, the president of an NGO, said that Nandy's article presented Gujarat and its people in poor light. The columns were written immediately after the Gujarat elections.
“I am not taking the charges seriously. It has been done to silence the critics of the Narendra Modi government,” said Nandy.
This is not the first instance when the media in the state has been targeted. The editor of a local language paper in Surat was charged for using abusive words while referring to Chief Minister Modi.
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