“Such an environment of FIRs against journalists is wrong for them and not just them but for the country. It is harmful,” says ABP Majha journalist Mandar Gonjari.
The journalist in Pune has been named in an FIR after a dispute over a single student’s scholarship grievance escalated into a campus clash between rival student groups and a legal case against him. Both the FIR and the journalist now offer opposing accounts of who pressured that student to change her story.
