The Tripura Police on Sunday registered a first information report against two journalists covering the recent communal violence in the st...
The Tripura Police on Sunday registered a first information report against two journalists covering the recent communal violence in the state.
The first information report filed in Fatikroy police station was based on a complaint by Kanchan Das. He alleged that Sakunia and Jha made an “instigating speech” against the Hindu community and the Tripura government while visiting people from the Muslim community in the Paul Bazaar area.
Das also said that the journalists blamed Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal for burning a mosque in the Paul Bazaar area.
The complainant alleged that the journalists were a part of the criminal conspiracy to damage the communal harmony of Tripura and malign the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and the Tripura government.
Tension has been prevailing in Tripura after a mosque and several shops were attacked in the Panisagar sub-division during a Vishwa Hindu Parishad rally on October 26. The Hindutva outfit was protesting about the attacks on Hindus in neighbouring Bangladesh. The police have claimed that no mosque had been burnt in the violence.
Journalist Samriddhi K Sakunia of HW News tweeted on Sunday that she and her colleague, Swarnaa Jha, were not being allowed to go outside their hotel in Unakoti district.
“The police arrived yesterday [Saturday] at the hotel around 10:30 at night and...
