Journalist arrest

News

JOURNALIST ARREST NEWS

Gujarat HC rejects Langa’s plea to quash FIR

February 18, 2025 5:35 am

The petitioner sought quashing of the FIR lodged against him and an unidentified official of GMB under BNS sections pertaining to theft, criminal conspiracy..

Gujarat: Journalist Mahesh Langa gets anticipatory bail in extortion case

February 15, 2025 12:57 am

Langa was earlier arrested after 13 firms and their proprietors were booked for an alleged input tax credit (ITC) fraud, based on a complaint filed by the Directorate General of GST Intelligence

Punitive action against journalists for doing their work is worrisome: Editors Guild on FIR against Mahesh Langa

October 28, 2024 9:04 pm

The statement by the EGI came two days after Suresh Nambath, editor of The Hindu, in a series of public posts on his X account, urged the Gujarat Police to drop charges against Langa.

FIR against The Hindu journalist, Mahesh langa, gujarat police, gmb documents, public interest, The Hindu editor, GMB confidential documents, Gujarat Maritime Board, who is Suresh Nambath, Gujarat police, Goods and Services Tax, GST fraud, INDIAN EXPRESS NEWS

The Hindu editor urges Gujarat police to drop FIR against journalist

October 27, 2024 7:55 am

The latest FIR has been lodged based on a complaint by the GMB while the first FIR is based on a complaint by the Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI).

Gujarat GST fraud case: Five accused sent to four-day police custody

October 27, 2024 7:53 am

While officials told The Indian Express that Langa remains the sole accused in this case at the moment, they suspect that someone at the GMB office had leaked classified documents to Langa.

Journalist extortion case, Journalist attempt to money extortion, Pune police, FIR lodged, illegal gambling, indian express news

‘Journalist’ booked for attempt to extort money from businessman

December 26, 2023 3:28 am

The accused then allegedly demanded a “hafta” of Rs 5,000 every month from the businessman.

Arrest of journalist: Punjab Governor Banwarilal Purohit dials CM Bhagwant Mann, expresses displeasure

May 06, 2023 5:47 pm

Government sources said the chief minister told the Governor that the female journalist had used a casteist slur against another woman and the law was not bothered with whether an accused was a journalist or not.

Govts should not try to suppress voices: Manipur journalist freed after 4 months in jail

Manipur Journalist Keshorchandra Wangkhem files petition challenging detention order

December 19, 2018 8:23 pm

In the petition, he said that none of the ground furnished covers the expression of “prejudicial to the security of the state and to the maintenance of public order”.

Journalist Abhijit Iyer Mitra arrested for 'derogatory remarks' on Konark temple, gets bail

September 20, 2018 7:48 pm

Odisha police told the court that Mitra "gave unpalatable and irresponsible remarks on Konark Sun Temple by uploading his views on social media with an intention to outrage and to wound religious feeling which may create communal fraction".

Supreme Court: States resisting social audits by NCPCR hiding something

Supreme Court refuses to interfere with arrest of journalist Upendra Rai

May 04, 2018 2:48 pm

On his arrest, the CBI had said that Rai’s bank accounts saw transactions of over Rs 100 crore in 2017-18. Some of these transactions, the CBI said, indicate “pumping of tainted/ ill-gotten money into the system”.