Registering cases all round

IN Media Watch Briefs | 25/01/2011

This happened last week in a small trading town, Tadepalligudem, in West Godavari district, AP. The police registered a criminal case against local journos for allegedly obstructing officials of the Income Tax Department in discharging their duties. The officials complained to the police that the scribes had obstructed their work when they went to the town to conduct raids on onion traders. The journos retaliated by complaining to the cops that they were in fact assaulted by the onion traders when they tried to cover the raid by the Income Tax officials. The police registered a case of assault on scribes by the onion traders, too.

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