Closing in, in Bastar

IN Media Watch Briefs | 19/02/2016

Even as press freedom advocates are now absorbed in protesting  the attacks on journalists in Delhi, the situation is becoming grimmer for the Scroll.in reporter  whose property was attacked last week. Malini Subramaniam's young household help was summoned to the police station twice  for interrogation, and kept there for hours. And her landlord was also summoned to the thana and by now has also issued an eviction notice to her. Her husband was called and held inside the police station. Lawyers helping her and the jailed journalists in Jagdalpur have also had their landlord questioned by the police, and he has given them notice to vacate their premises.