The Mumbai Police on Friday served a second notice to Republic TV for allegedly inciting disaffection among its personnel against Commissi...
The Mumbai Police on Friday served a second notice to Republic TV for allegedly inciting disaffection among its personnel against Commissioner of Police Param Bir Singh, The Indian Express reported. The police asked the channel for details of its output desk.
The police said in a press release that they questioned four editors of the news channel, according to the newspaper.
“During the questioning of Shivani Gupta (senior associate editor), we have learnt that she has read out the contents that she received from the output shift in charge or output desk on the teleprompter software,” an unidentified official told the newspaper. The official added that the channel was asked to provide details of its output desk and shift-in-charge.
Republic TV, meanwhile, claimed that the police had asked for “each and every detail” of its news desk. “The Param Bir Singh-led Mumbai Police has now sent a notice effectively seeking each and every detail of the Republic news desk, including addresses of the technicians of Republic TV, IDs and passwords of newsroom software, roster details of its journalists,” he news channel said in a statement.
The channel added that it was given two days to provide these details. It called the notice a “shameful trespass of...
