Bulldozers were back in the news cycle last week with the Yogi Adityanath government’s crackdown on gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmad and his aides, who have been accused of killing a witness in a 2005 murder case.
But as one channel after another hailed the return of “baba ka bulldozer”, the perils of such reportage were ostensibly visible in Prayagraj’s Chakiya locality, where an ANI journalist’s property was demolished without any of these channels reaching out to him for his version.
