Honour or paid service?

IN Media Watch Briefs | 16/04/2011

The Indian Journalists’ Association (IJA) in Europe said it found itself at the receiving end of aggressive behavior from a Sahara India Parivar employee on April 5 while covering the unveiling of Royal Mail stamps featuring Subroto Roy. They were seeking a clarification on the impression given by the Sahara group that Royal Mail had honoured Roy by releasing such stamps, whereas Royal Mail had told the IJA that Sahara had availed of a service which enables its customers to obtain personalised stamps by paying for them.

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