Over four days after a second FIR was lodged against The Hindu journalist Mahesh Langa, his colleagues took to X to condemn the police action and uphold “a journalist’s right to obtain and process a confidential or ‘sensitive’ official document in line with their work”.
The publication’s Gujarat-based senior assistant editor – who has been in judicial custody since October 8 for alleged GST fraud – was booked in another case on October 22. The second FIR was lodged at the Sector 7 police station in Gandhinagar for possession of confidential documents linked to the Gujarat Maritime Board.
