The Kerala chapter of the Network of Women in Media, India has slammed the case against Asianet journalist Akhila Nandakumar as “a direct affront to media freedom and the freedom of speech and expression”.
Nandakumar and four others in Kerala had been named in a complaint filed by a Students’ Federation of India leader PM Arsho over a purported conspiracy to “defame” him. This was after Akhila reported for Asianet that Arsho, a master’s student at Maharaja’s College, had purportedly passed his third-semester exams without appearing for them.
