[Reader-list] CRPF attacks journalists in Srinagar

[Pawan Durani]

Article 370......they live with it ...they should die with it ...their
prefrence ....they have a separate constitution ,.....let them appeal under
RPC acts.......

Your obsession is just too compulsive


On 7/7/08, Shivam Vij शिवम् विज् <mail at shivamvij.com> wrote:
>
> In any other state capital, such an attack on journalists would have
> made headline news in the Delhi media. For Srinagar, silence.
>
> o o o o
>
> Media persons thrashed
> Div Com, IGP Promise Action
>
>
> Greater kashmir
> GK NEWS NETWORK
> http://www.greaterkashmir.com/full_story.asp?Date=6_7_2008&ItemID=27&cat=1
>
>
> Srinagar, July 5: Journalists on Saturday strongly condemned the use
> of brute force on them time and again by police and troops of Central
> Reserve Police Force to prevent them from discharging their
> professional duties.
> About 100 media men including photojournalists and videographers
> lashed out at police and troops. "Beating of photojournalists and
> videographers by police has become a routine for the past two months,"
> said a journalist, adding that such actions were "highly condemnable."
>
> A case in point is when the CRPF troopers deployed near Nigin Club
> harassed two Greater Kashmir staffers, on their way home after the
> days work, last night. At about 11 p.m. the staffers were stopped by
> the troops and asked to board down their vehicle. They frisked the
> vehicle bearing registration No MH 04 AH 8817 and showered all sorts
> of questions like what they were doing and where there were going "so
> late."
>
> Even after the staffers disclosed their identity, the troopers
> responded with "What if you are from the Press?"
> When the staffers told them to contact their own PRO, the troopers
> made light of their own superior, saying, "Who is he, he must be
> sleeping with…" Detaining the staffers for half an hour more,
> unnecessarily, the troopers finally allowed them to proceed. Concerned
> over the growing incidents of harassment, a meeting was called today
> after six journalists were beaten by police and CRPF troops at Soura
> while covering the protests which erupted after fire broke out at the
> Jenab Sahib Shrine. The meeting urged the authorities to call an
> immediate halt to such incidents and restrain their personnel.
>
> After the meeting, the divisional commissioner, Mehboob Iqbal, and the
> inspector-general of police, S M Sahai, visited the Press Enclave this
> evening to ascertain the facts. "We'll take up the matter with the
> CRPF and police officials and see where the problem lies," Sahai
> assured the journalists.
>
> Mehboob Iqbal said: "We'll hold a meeting of the CRPF and police
> officials and also invite journalists to sort out the matter once for
> all."
>
> Meanwhile, Kashmir Press, the premier body of newspaper editors in
> Kashmir, on Saturday condemned the attack on media persons by CRPF at
> Jenab Sahib Soura.
> In a statement, President of the Association, Ghulam Hassan Kaloo,
> condemned the CRPF action on media persons and demanded a probe into
> the incident.
>
> "The association demands action as well as probe into the thrashing of
> media persons by CRPF and IG CRPF should take cognizance of the
> incidents where journalists are being targeted by his men," he said.
> Repeated attempts by Greater Kashmir to contact the inspector-general,
> CRPF, and his PRO failed.
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