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Tribune News Service
Ruchika M Khanna
Chandigarh, May 6
Punjab Governor Banwarilal Purohit reportedly spoke to CM Bhagwant Mann on Saturday, expressing concern over the arrest of journalist Bhawna Kishore.
She was arrested by Ludhiana Police on Thursday after a automobile she was using met with an accident.
Official sources advised The Tribune that Purohit expressed concern over the incident and reportedly mentioned such incidents introduced a nasty identify to the federal government.
The journalist, representing a TV information channel, was detained for hours on Friday at Division No 3 police station, when the automobile she was using hit a lady.
The journalist, together with two others, was additionally booked on expenses of utilizing derogatory language. She was reportedly produced earlier than an obligation Justice of the Peace on Friday night and despatched in police remand. It is learnt that she is to be produced earlier than the courtroom on Saturday.
The TV channel has been crying foul, saying their journalist has been arrested as “revenge” for the information they carried on the renovation of the home of AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal.
The journalist was arrested reportedly by a male police officer, and no girl officer was current on the time of her arrest.
She had gone to Ludhiana to cowl the inauguration of the Aam Aadmi Clinics, by the chief ministers of Punjab and Delhi.
Official sources in the Chief Minister’s Office say Mann advised the Governor that the case was not registered in opposition to a journalist, however in opposition to an individual who made casteist remarks in opposition to one other girl.
“The CM advised the Governor that data acquired from the spot had revealed that the journalist’s cellular was damaged when the accident occurred and she or he stepped out of the automobile and had an argument with the girl, Gagan, who’s the complainant in the case. The argument turned ugly and the journalist abused the complainant, who approached the police and the FIR was registered,” mentioned a senior officer in the CMO.
