Several journalist associations have hit out at the police action against two Delhi-based independent journalists, who were booked under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita for sharing “malicious” posts claiming an incident of mob lynching in Shamli district.
After Digipub called it a “grave overreach and misuse of criminal laws”, the Press Club of India backed the statement and underlined that while the police has contested the nature of incident, saying it was not communal, “there is no cause for filing cases against journalists who are putting out the information available to them”.
