Hyderabad, March 24 (Maxim News): A delegation led by leaders of Telangana Union of Working Journalists (TUWJ) lodged a complaint on physical abuse on working journalists by city police. The delegation consisting of the general secretary from the association K. Virahat Ali and others called on the DGP, Mahender Reddy and submitted a representation on the issue.
In the representation, they alleged that the police had not only attacked the political bureau chief of Andhra Jyothy Telugu News Daily Mendu Srinivas but also abused him verbally by using filthy language at Ramanthapur on Monday night. He also told the DGP that the police had misbehaved with the journalists at five different places of the city on the same day. He urged the DGP to immediately take action against the police who have attacked and misbehaved with the journalists. He told the DGP that the journalists who work in other departments of the news paper and news TV channels don’t have accreditation cards like regular reporters and urged the top cop of the state to issue identity cards to all those journalists.
The DGP responded positively to the representation submitted by the union leaders and expressed his disappointment over the bitter incidents. He assured the delegation that they would take action against those accused of misbehavior with the working journalists. He also assured that they would issue special passes to all the journalists who are covering the corona related news in different police commissionerates of the state. The delegation comprised of Andhra Jyothy network incharge Krishan Prasad and others. (Maxim News)
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