The Delhi Police on Saturday detained a journalist from the Singhu border for allegedly misbehaving with a station house officer on duty a...
The Delhi Police on Saturday detained a journalist from the Singhu border for allegedly misbehaving with a station house officer on duty at the protest site, The Indian Express reported.
Mandeep Punia, a freelance journalist and contributor to the Caravan magazine, was detained while he was on an assignment to cover the clashes that broke out at Singhu on Friday.
Another journalist, Dharmender Singh from Online News India, was also picked by the police. The Indian Express reported that Singh was allowed to go later after he showed his identity card, while according to the Newslaundry, both Punia and Singh were were taken to Alipur police station.
Hartosh Singh Bal, the political editor of Caravan magazine, tweeted that a first information report has been filed under Sections 186 (obstructing public servant in discharge of public functions), 332 (voluntarily causing hurt to deter public servant from his duty), 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty) of the Indian Penal Code.
“We’ll take whatever legal recourse is necessary,” Bal said. “We’ve learnt Mandeep had spent the morning trying to track down those from BJP claiming to be ‘locals’ at Singhu.”
Tensions have remained high at the protest site since Friday, when a group of around 200 people barged in despite heavy security, threw stones at farmers...
