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Udhayanidhi row: Journalist who reported on Ayodhya seer’s bounty named in FIR

The Ayodhya seer who had announced a Rs 10 crore bounty for Tamil Nadu minister Udhayanidhi Stalin’s head – over his remarks on Sanatan Dharma – has been booked in Tamil Nadu amid a political war of words. But the FIR has also named the Quint’s Uttar Pradesh correspondent Piyush Rai, who had first reported on the bounty the seer had announced, with a video.

Several journalists have condemned the move, tagging the DMK government in Tamil Nadu on social media.

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