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Press Club slams Delhi Police for detaining journalists at Jantar Mantar protest
Press Club slams Delhi Police for detaining journalists at Jantar Mantar protest
The Press Club of India has condemned the detention of two journalists who were covering a protest at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on September 25 demanding the resignation of Chief Election…
The Press Club of India has condemned the detention of two journalists who were covering a protest at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on September 25 demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. Frontline journalist Vedaant Lakhera and The Wire journalist Mohammad Irfan were detained despite wearing press identification cards, the Press Club said.
Lakhera was taken to Parliament Street police station after asking Delhi Police personnel why they were not wearing name tags and was allegedly told to delete a photograph, which he refused to do before being released. Irfan was taken to a police station in Dwarka and detained for several hours. The Press Club alleged that a police officer snatched Irfan's microphone and threw it aside, and the mic could not be found later.
The Press Club urged the Delhi Police to apologise to the journalists and said journalists should be able to document protests safely. The Press Club also noted that other journalists reported aggressive behaviour by police. Delhi Police's response was not immediately available.
Indian Opinion Analysis
Both Times Now and The Hindu report the same Press Club allegations with near-identical details, neither adding a police rebuttal or official comment. The uniform framing is straight news reporting of a civil-society body's statement, making this a neutral-report story. The absence of any police response in either account leaves the allegations unopposed in the public record. The Home Ministry's direct control over Delhi Police, noted only in The Hindu's version, is the sole added context. The next development to track is any Delhi Police statement or a formal complaint from the journalists.
Coverage: 2 sources, 2 neutral
Sources (2): timesnownews.com (neutral report), thehindu.com (neutral report)
This brief was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above, so one read covers every framing they carry.
