Police detain two independent journalists and a film-maker from Mumbai and a law student from Hyderabad in Dantewada, Chhatisgarh a day before they were to cover a �jan sunwai� (public hearing) on the problems of adivasis in the area.
The journalists, Priyanka Borpujari and Satyen Bordoloi, filmmaker Nishta Jain and student Suresh Deepala, said that their cameras were taken away by security forces and the footage they recorded was erased before it was returned to them a few days later.
The Superintendent of Police, Dantewada, Amaresh Mishra, said that a case of dacoity under Sec 395 IPC was lodged against the journalists on the basis of a complaint filed by local journalists.