FIRs against journos in Chattisgarh

IN Media Watch Briefs | 31/03/2017

Scroll.in reports that a First Information Report was filed against two journalists in Bastar on March 31 for posting and sharing a message on social media and through WhatsApp about former Inspector General SRP Kalluri meeting Maoist fighters in Jagdalpur. Kamal Shukla and Prabhat Singh have been charged .with defamation, insult to provoke breach of peace, public mischief and disturbing religious enmity.

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