Television channel India Today on Friday issued a statement asking the government to explain how a conversation by one of its journalist, w...
Television channel India Today on Friday issued a statement asking the government to explain how a conversation by one of its journalist, who was covering the case of gangrape and murder of a Dalit woman by upper-caste men in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras, was leaked online. The media group questioned why the woman’s family was under kept surveillance, and the legal basis for recording and leaking the telephonic conversations.
A political controversy has erupted over an alleged leaked telephonic conversation between India Today reporter Tanushree Pandey and the brother of the deceased, Sandeep. The purported clip was appeared on a pro-government website and on social media.
In the clip, Pandey asks Sandeep to send her a video statement of the woman’s father that he was being forced to go to the local police station and sign a document saying they were “satisfied by the police probe” in the case.
Pandey refers to a video of the father shared by Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi. “We are not satisfied with this,” the father said, as per a video shared by Gandhi on Twitter. “My daughter’s case should be probed by the CBI and monitored by a Supreme Court judge. We are under pressure from officials and confined to...
