Arrest warrant against TV journalist: Rajasthan Police find his Noida house locked, say UP Police didn’t cooperate
Police say they went to News18 India journalist Aman Chopra’s home in Noida over a case in which an arrest warrant had been issued by a local court. But he was allowed to 'slip away' by the UP police, they allege.
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News18 journalist and anchor Aman Chopra. (Twitter/@AmanChopra_)A Rajasthan Police team went to Noida to arrest TV journalist Aman Chopra, but returned without success as his house was found to be locked. This happened after the Rajasthan High Court on Saturday stayed Chopra’s arrest in two FIRs registered against him in Bundi and Alwar districts. However, the court did not stay his arrest in a third FIR registered in Dungarpur district, in which a local court had issued arrest warrant against the journalist.
Rajasthan Police said that their team went to the house of Chopra in Noida on Saturday but he was not there. The cops also said that the Uttar Pradesh Police didn’t cooperate with them.
“This was the second time that our team went to arrest Chopra. Much like the previous instance, a Sub-Inspector of the UP Police took our team to a police station and made the team to wait on the pretext of details of the case. Our Additional SP had already briefed them on the case against Chopra who faces arrest warrant from a Dungarpur court,” said Dungarpur SP Sudhir Joshi on Saturday.
“Our team was made to wait at the Noida police station and the accused had slipped away by then. When the team reached Chopra’s house, it was found locked. Around five-six days back when my team went to Noida, the same thing had happened,” added the SP.
Three FIRs were registered against Chopra last month after he anchored a TV show following demolition of a temple in Rajasthan. The first FIR was registered at Bichwada in Dungarpur on April 23, the second at Bundi the same day, and the third in Alwar on April 24.
“Chopra, in his TV show, had shown false and fictitious details. He implied in the show that the recent demolition of a temple in Alwar was done by the Rajasthan government as an act of revenge in response to the demolition drive in Jahangirpuri in Delhi. The FIR was registered against Chopra under sections 124-A (sedition), 295A (acts intended to outrage religious feelings), 153 A (promoting enmity between different groups) of the IPC and Section 67 of the IT Act,” said Dilpdan Charan, SHO, Dungarpur Kotwali police station, who is investigating the case.
Additional Advocate General (AAG) GS Rathore said that Chopra had filed a petition in the Rajasthan High Court seeking quashing of the FIRs. of which the court gave protection against arrest in connection with FIRs at Alwar and Bundi. “The court did not stay his arrest in relation to the FIR registered in Dungarpur,” said AAG Rathore.
SP Joshi said that since the court order doesn’t mention the FIR registered in Dungarpur, they will continue efforts to arrest Chopra.
Meanwhile, Bisrakh (Noida) SHO Umesh Bahadur Singh said, “Due process was carried out. The team came and we let them carry out the visit and subsequent checking. A notice was also served at the house. We facilitated the entire process.”
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