The Hindu editor urges Gujarat police to drop FIR against journalist

In a bid of posts connected X, Nambath said, “We would similar to reiterate that journalists are required to process documents, including those of a confidential nature, successful the enactment of their work. They are guided by the larger nationalist involvement successful perusing documents that are authoritative oregon confidential… To record charges against them for possession of specified documents is to undermine their journalistic enactment and their cardinal rights and to subvert the nationalist interest. We impulse the Gujarat Police to driblet the charges relating to the possession of classified documents against Mahesh.”

Expressing interest astatine the filing of this FIR against Langa connected October 22 astatine the Sector 7 constabulary presumption successful Gandhinagar for “possession of immoderate documents related to the Gujarat Maritime Board”, Nambath pointed that that the SP, Gandhinagar, had said the adjacent time that the online FIR was not accessible to nationalist arsenic it had been placed successful the “sensitive” category. “This is wholly unacceptable,” Nambath said successful the post.

Asked astir his response, Gandhinagar SP Ravi Teja Vasamsetty said, “We person not filed the FIR of our ain volition. It has been filed based connected a ailment from the Gujarat Maritime Board (GMB). It is our work to analyse the claims.”

SP Vasamsetty said, “We person submitted the FIR to the tribunal and the household tin get it from there. Further, we person not yet taken immoderate enactment against the accused successful this case. If we bash so, we volition pass him of the charges against him.”

The 2nd FIR against Langa was filed astatine the Sector-7 constabulary presumption of Gandhinagar connected October 22 portion helium was successful judicial custody successful different lawsuit related to the alleged GST fraud.