Gujarat cops (accompanied by Delhi police) came to journalist Ravi Nair’s home over a story he did with The Washington Post on Adani. An FIR has been lodged against Ravi, but not The Washington Post, based on a complaint by an Adani Group staffer.
The police took away two of Ravi’s phones, his son’s laptop, and the laptop and iPad of a colleague who happened to be at home and is not an accused in the case. The cops had a judicial magistrate’s order. Refused to give hash value of the devices
Every opposition MP who sold himself or herself and defected to the government should hang their heads in shame.
These young people are facing brutality in the streets because the people they elected to represent them were greedy little cowards who took the cash & switched sides
"If freedom of press is under threat in India how do you exist?" is the genius who'd ask
"If murder rates are increasing in xyz how are you still alive?"
"If the air is polluted to toxic levels why don't you have lung cancer?" & some such geniuses are minsters or journalists😏
A CJI perceived to be close to the establishment may ultimately be remembered for triggering the most viral anti-establishment internet movement. Irony just took a summer vacation along with the judges 🪳
sometimes people do a far better job when they take periodic holidays...
(not counting all the temple visits, beach strolls at LD, jungle safaris etc etc)
20 year cooling off period for authoring book, but immediate joining in a political party after govt job is totally fine.
That scum of an ED officer who ran political cases quit, went to fight UP polls and became an MLA within months.
Breaking in HT today- those in "positions of power" may have to wait 20 years after retirement to write their story. The MM Naravane effect. @rahulsinghx and I report https://t.co/4x0Ga2h6gI
Disappointing that I pay for 5G plan to @reliancejio and am served with 4G (sometimes 3g) speed even in places like Mumbai's Bandra.. (ironically close to the large Jio buildings)
@JioCare@DoT_India any explanation 😒
One the richest, most powerful & well connected businessman in the world is fighting small independent you-tubers. A man who owns one of India's biggest media conglomerates is discovering that news content creators with one camera - broadcasting from one room - have one thing ....that money cant buy.
During India's First Emergency (besides the notable exception of @IndianExpress) - it were the smaller independent publications that stood their ground & gave Indira Gandhi a tough time. Publications like #Himmat & #Pratap didn't bend despite hundreds of journalists being sent to jail & courts being a mute spectator.
Today, 50yrs down the line - as history repeats itself, we at @thedeshbhakt are proud to keep that tradition alive along with a select group of individuals. The tradition of questioning people in power & not bending to money & muscle.
On the 16th of September - a Delhi Court passed an ex-parte injunction order against nine journalists & organisations (including @paranjoygt & @t_d_h_nair) who had been regularly reporting on Adani.
While such orders have become mundane in New India - what set this apart was a 'John Doe' on the 10th defendant. This basically allowed Adani to make a list of people that IT THOUGHT was making 'defamatory content' against it - these people were not even NAMED in the defamation suit.
Now independent youtubers & publications such as @ravish_journo, @ajitanjum, @newslaundry, @dhruv_rathee, @abhisar_sharma and yours truly have been given 36 hours to delete over 200 pieces of content - without any opportunity to contest this order.
Whatever your political leanings may be - know that this is now beyond politics and this silencing will impact everyone.
We take this move as a compliment and this is testament to the power & credibility that small independent Digital Publications have been able to garner. We thank each and every member of the Deshbhakt family for their trust and support.
We do not know when OR IF the higher courts will reverse this alarming order - but we will carry on our mission to punch up, question everything & fight for our Democracy.
As for the legal angle - there is a laundry list of businessmen who tried to silence journalists using the courts - usually it didn't end very well for them.