Tripura, India,
The Tripura Police have filed a First Information Report (FIR) against two journalists, who were reporting the state’s recent communal violence.
According to Kashmir Media Service, as per the report, the FIR, registered in Fatikroy police station, was based on a complaint filed by Kanchan Das.
He claimed that Sakunia and Jha made an “instigating speech” against the Hindu community and the Tripura government while visiting people of the Muslim community in the Paul Bazaar area.
Tripura has been tense since a mosque and several shops were attacked, during a Vishwa Hindu Parishad demonstration on October 26 in the Panisagar sub-division.
The Hindutva group was denouncing attacks on Hindus in neighboring Bangladesh. The police have claimed that no mosques were burned during the unrest, reads the report.
HW News journalist Samriddhi K Sakunia tweeted on Sunday that she and her colleague, Swarnaa Jha, were not allowed to go outside their hotel in Unakoti district.
“The police arrived yesterday at the hotel around 10:30 at night and served the FIR copy in the morning at 5:30am,” Sakunia said in a tweet.
She added: “We were supposed to leave for the capital, Agartala, but have been not allowed to move despite full cooperation. There are around 16 to 17 police deployed outside our hotel.”
The journalists said, they will release a statement with details of the intimidation they had faced while covering the communal violence in Tripura.—INP
