A team of Rajasthan police was on Sunday searching for television journalist Aman Chopra in Uttar Pradesh’s Noida township to arrest him in compliance with a warrant issued by a court in Dungarpur district. Mr. Chopra is wanted in a case of sedition and hurting religious sentiments of a community.
Mr. Chopra, an editor with news channel Network-18, had anchored a TV show insinuating that the recent demolition of a temple in Alwar was carried out by the Congress government in Rajasthan as an “act of revenge” against the demolition drive at Jahangirpuri in Delhi, in which the gate of a mosque was razed.
Three first information reports (FIRs) were registered against Mr. Chopra in Dungarpur, Alwar and Bundi in connection with his contentious TV show. The Rajasthan High Court has stayed the journalist’s arrest till further orders in two FIRs of Alwar and Bundi, but he faces the arrest warrant issued by the Dungarpur court following the FIR registered on April 23.
