Journalist Patricia Mukhim on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that her Facebook post condemning the attack on five non-tribal youth by a g...
Journalist Patricia Mukhim on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that her Facebook post condemning the attack on five non-tribal youth by a gang of masked men, allegedly tribals, in Meghalaya’s Lawsohtun village, is not an offence, Live Law reported.
A bench of Justices L Nageswara Rao and S Ravindra Bhat reserved its judgement in the petition filed by the senior Shillong-based journalist challenging a Meghalaya High Court order to quash criminal proceedings against her.
On July 3 last year, masked miscreants had attacked five boys on a basketball court in Lawsohtun village. In the post, written days after the incident, Mukhim, the editor of The Shillong Times, had criticised the Lawsohtun village council for failing to identify the perpetrators. She wrote that Meghalaya has been a failed state because of continued attacks on non-tribal people and that the attackers have never been arrested since 1979.
On July 7, a village council in Meghalaya filed a complaint against Mukhim for her allegedly inciting statements. Based on this, the police registered a criminal case under various sections of the Indian Penal Code against the journalist for promoting enmity between different groups. She was also charged with defamation, among other things. Besides, she was served a notice under Section 41 A of the Criminal Code of...
