Gujarat

It is becoming increasingly a trend in India -- the act of rightwing Hindu ultranationalists targeting journalists who expose their misdeeds. The journalist who reported about a mass grave in Panderwada village in Panchmahal district of Gujarat is now being hounded by the state police. A six-member police team landed up in Bhopal on Wednesday to serve summons to Rahul Singh in connection with the...

Two policemen at the Fatehgunj police station in Vadodara beat up two mediapersons and pushed them behind the lockup on Friday morning. The journalist and cameraman, working with a regional channel that has national network, were bashed up after they entered into arguments with two police constables on Fatehgunj police station premises, the Times of India reported. The report said: [ Link]...

Journalists on Friday were caught between the opposing factions while covering the Ahmedabad Bandh called in memory of the two minor boys who had died under mysterious circumstances at the Asaram Ashram gurukul, the Indian Express has reported. Half-a-dozen reporters and cameramen from the national and the local media, including a woman journalist for a national TV channel were attacked by angry...

NDTV's office in Ahmedabad was on Saturday smashed by hockey stick-wielding activists of a right wing Hindu fundamentalist group, the channel reported. The Shiv Sena, which has been involved in similar attacks elsewhere, denied that it was involved in any way. Members of the Hindu Samrajya Sena group forced their way in and beat two employees with hockey sticks and steel pipes. They broke all the...

AHMEDABAD: The editor of a Gujarati eveninger published from Surat was arrested on charges of defamation and using abusive language in his editorial. "The editor was arrested on Tuesday under various sections of Indian Penal Code (IPC) including 124 (a) for attempting to create hatred and contempt for the government, established by law," Surat Police Commissioner Sudhir Sinha said. Samna editor...

Rajkot, July 3: WHILE the Rajkot head of Swadhyay Parivar, Manish Savshani, is in custody of Ahmedabad Police, two more persons from Rajkot district were detained on Monday for in a case of attack on the editor of an eveninger on May 5, 2005, allegedly by Swadhyay Parivar supporters. Raju Shah, editor of Saurashtra Aajtak, was reportedly attacked by three men for publishing an e-mail sent by Vinu...

In a letter to the interior minister of the state of Gujarat, Gordhan Zadaphia, RSF denounced the attack on some twenty journalists by police of Gujarat State in western India. "After accusing the media of exaggerating the extent of the recent wave of inter-community violence in the state of Gujarat, the authorities of this state used the most reprehensible behavior to prevent journalists from...