Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 5: Working journalists including photo-journalists and video journalists of Jammu region, in one voice, have taken strong exception to Government’s harassment of senior journalist. In a meeting, Press Club of Jammu (PCJ) sharing its concern, has conveyed its displeasure and anguish to the Jammu and Kashmir Government for lodging an FIR against the senior journalist Saleem Pandit who has been discharging his professional duties since 2000 in the Kashmir Valley for the national daily.
Saleem Pandit had reported about the attack on the tourists by stone pelters soon after the killing of 13 terrorists on April 1, 2018. The police, though admitted that two tourists were injured in the stone pelting somewhere in Khanabal in Anantnag and l the scribe had reported that the attack was carried at three locations which he still stand for, causing injuries to four tourists.
Ironically, the State Government not only harassed the senior journalist by adopting different means including a campaign to malign the senior scribe in social media through its agents, but they also registered a case against the scribe in the police station under Section 505(2) RPC.
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