I&B Minister Javadekar condemns Arnab Goswami's assault & arrest; Slams Maharashtra govt

Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting (I&B) Prakash Javdekar condemned Mumbai Police's attack on Republic Media Network's Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami and lashed out at way press was being oppressed in state of Maharashtra. 

Amid witch-hunt on Republic Media Network, over a dozen officers of Mumbai Police on Wednesday morning reached Editor-In-Chief Arnab Goswami's residence. Mumbai Police manhandled Arnab Goswami and as many as 10 police personnel entered residence of Arnab, with video captured LIVE. y pushed and heckled Arnab demanding he come out.

Union Minister Prakash Javdekar pointed out that this incident reminded country of days during Emergency when thhe press was treated this way. 

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Moreover, Mumbai Police blocked Republic Executive editor Niranjan Narayanswamy and senior associate editor Sanjay Pathak from entering Arnab's residence. 8 police vehicles and at least 40-50 Police personnel are in building premises of Arnab, many armed. When Niranjan said that it is his right to report, he was thrown out of building and Mumbai Police wanted his phone. 

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This comes after Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh in his latest fake news plant called Arnab " biggest hawala operator in city of Mumbai." Tearing apart  Mumbai Police's ridiculous claim Arnab Goswami stressed that network sustains only on blessings of viewers. Speaking on ' Debate' on Tuesday, he brought to viewers' attention a piece of paper that is framed in his office. Mentioning that it showed first week of television ratings when Republic TV was launched, he recalled that channel topped ranking charts n itself.

In total, Republic Media Network's manment & editorial staff have endured over 150 hours of questioning in a variety of cases that are beyond initial fraud TRP matter, including Republic’s Senior Associate Editor Shawan Sen, Executive Editor Niranjan Narayanaswamy Output Editor Sagarika Mitra, Senior Associate Editor Shivani Gupta. journalists maintained that y won’t reveal ir sources.  

Param Bir Singh-led Mumbai Police's brazen attempt to strike on press freedom has been exposed through multiple sessions of unnecessary interrogation sessions. Taking it a step furr, in a never-seen-before move, Param Bir Singh-led Mumbai Police filed an FIR against entire editorial team of Network, invoking a 1922 British Raj-era law that had last been used in Emergency-era.

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