New Delhi: India today journalist Tanushree Pandey – who broke history of the secret cremation of the Hathras rape victim, he is now being defamed over a phone conversation he had with the deceased’s brother.
‘Op India’, a right-wing pro-government website, played a recording of the conversation and claimed that Pandey tried to convince the woman’s brother to send him a video statement from his father saying he was under immense pressure from the administration. to sign a document stating that “they were satisfied with the police investigation.”
On Saturday, India today issued a statement questioning the authorities for recording the call, asking why his journalist’s phone – or the phones of the deceased’s family – are being kept under surveillance.
The statement also questioned the legal basis on which phone calls are recorded and filtered.
“India today First he asks why our reporter’s phone, who was covering the murder of Hathras, was tapped. If it was Sandeep’s phone that was being tapped, then the government must answer why the phones of the grieving victim’s family are under surveillance. And under what legal provision of the law were telephones tapped and call recordings leaked by officials who had access to these recordings, ”the statement reads.
In a video of the woman’s father shared by Congressional Leader Priyanka Gandhi, she said: “We are not satisfied with this. My daughter’s case must be investigated by the IWC and supervised by a Supreme Court judge. We are under pressure from officials and confined to our home, while the media have also been prohibited from meeting with us. “
Taking the video, the ruling Bharatiya Janta party said that the media is “misreporting” the events by coercing false statements from the woman’s family.
BJP leader Amit Malviya blamed India todayThe “false reports” for the prohibition of the media’s entry into the women’s village.
“If the media has not been allowed, the credit is for its channel and its coverage. There is an audio from his reporter Tanushree Pandey that has gone viral … his channel has been improved in Hathras [sic] and you are misreporting. So clearly, the media, particularly her group, don’t have much of a background to talk about, ”Malviya said.
Malviya even suggested that the woman was not raped, referring to the autopsy report. Police and members of the Yogi Adityanath government have been trying to claim that the woman was not raped, simply because no sperm was found on her body. However, several legal experts have reiterated that it is not necessary to find sperm to be able to decipher the crime of rape, and that the medical report makes clear the brutal sexual violence and rape.
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