Charges on TOI Mathur's own decision: Gujarat DGP
The decision to press sedition charges against TOI and its journalists was an independent move of Ahmedabad police commissioner OP Mathur, the head of Gujarat police said.
By TNN |
GANDHINAGAR: The decision to press sedition charges against Times of India (TOI) and its journalists was an independent move of Ahmedabad police commissioner OP Mathur, the head of Gujarat police, DGP PC Pande, said on Tuesday.
Assuring that no injustice would be done, Mr Pande told a delegation of protesting journalists that it was Mathur���s individual decision to file a case of sedition under Section 124 A of the IPC against TOI.
The delegation met DGP Pande and Gujarat governor Nawal Kishore Sharma on Tuesday and submitted a memorandum demanding the withdrawal of the charges.
The Gujarat governor told journalists he would go through the memorandum and then seek a report from the state government. So far, the Navrangpura police station has filed three FIRs by Mathur against TOI under the same charges. Two fresh FIRs were filed on Tuesday on the same grounds.
Meanwhile, the IPS association passed a resolution on Tuesday in support of Mathur and called the reports about his links with the underworld , carried in a series of articles in TOI, as defamatory and baseless.
Assuring that no injustice would be done, Mr Pande told a delegation of protesting journalists that it was Mathur���s individual decision to file a case of sedition under Section 124 A of the IPC against TOI.
The delegation met DGP Pande and Gujarat governor Nawal Kishore Sharma on Tuesday and submitted a memorandum demanding the withdrawal of the charges.
The Gujarat governor told journalists he would go through the memorandum and then seek a report from the state government. So far, the Navrangpura police station has filed three FIRs by Mathur against TOI under the same charges. Two fresh FIRs were filed on Tuesday on the same grounds.
Meanwhile, the IPS association passed a resolution on Tuesday in support of Mathur and called the reports about his links with the underworld , carried in a series of articles in TOI, as defamatory and baseless.
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