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. (File Photo)
Days aft Mahesh Langa, who is moving with The Hindu arsenic a elder adjunct editor, was booked implicit the alleged possession of confidential documents of the Gujarat Maritime Board (GMB), The Hindu’s exertion Suresh Nambath has urged the Gujarat Police that the FIR successful the lawsuit against him beryllium dropped. This is the 2nd lawsuit against Langa who was arrested earlier this period amid an ongoing probe successful an alleged Goods and Services Tax (GST) fraud.
The latest FIR has been lodged based connected a ailment by the GMB portion the archetypal FIR is based connected a ailment by the Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI).
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.