Police name journo as suspect in Bastar

IN Media Watch Briefs | 15/08/2017

The Hindu reports that the Bastar police have named Devsharan Tiwari, a senior journalist with local Hindi newspaper Deshbandhu in the Maoist insurgency-hit region of Chhattisgarh, as a suspect in a criminal case. The case involves a clash between two groups of the Bastar Transport Union.  Tiwari is the fifth journalist from Bastar to face a police investigation in the past two years. The SP quoted in the story say he has been made a suspect because he was among the 22 named by the complainant.