Cops and media

IN Media Watch Briefs | 07/10/2002

Cops and media

Why don¿t the Delhi police just invite the press in to watch their grilling of R K Sharma? First newspapers tell you exactly what their strategy will be to break him psychologically. Amazing that the police want to share this with the whole country before they have even begun questioning him. Then there are reports flying all over the place about whether or not he has broken down and confessed, which the police will neither confirm nor deny. Then the police tell you what wife said to husband in front of them. Isn¿t anybody in government telling them to just shut up and do their job?

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