The Uttar Pradesh Police on Saturday filed a first information report against The Wire ’s Founding Editor Siddharth Varadarajan for tweetin...
The Uttar Pradesh Police on Saturday filed a first information report against The Wire’s Founding Editor Siddharth Varadarajan for tweeting an article published on the news website reporting that the farmer who was killed during a tractor rally on Republic Day had died in police firing.
The article, published on Friday, cited the family of Navreet Singh. They rejected the Delhi Police’s claims that he had died after his tractor overturned. The family has alleged that the man was shot.
A case under Indian Penal Code Sections 153-B (imputations, assertions prejudicial to national-integration) and 505(2) (statements conducing to public mischief) has been filed in the state’s Rampur district.
On Saturday evening, the Rampur district magistrate responded to Varadarajan’s tweet. “We ardently request you to please let’s be sticking to facts and facts only,” he wrote. “We hope our request will be sincerely taken up by you.”
We ardently request you to please let's be sticking to facts and facts only. We hope our request will be sincerely taken up by you. Thank you.
— DM Rampur (@DeoRampur) January 30, 2021
Here is the official declaration. pic.twitter.com/2dowcoMriM
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