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Uttar Pradesh Police on Saturday, November 2, arrested the editor of a local Hindi newspaper in Ghaziabad based on a complaint by BJP MP Atul Garg. In his complaint, the Ghaziabad MP had accused Imran Khan, the editor-in-chief of 'Aap Abhitak' newspaper, of defamation for a report published six months ago. On October 6, BJP MP Atul Garg had filed a defamation complaint against Imran Khan, the editor-in-chief of 'Aap Abhitak'.
The matter is related to a report published on April 12 this year. Before the Lok Sabha elections, BJP gave ticket to Atul Garg, a local MLA and minister in the Yogi government, in place of VK Singh. On April 12, journalist Subhash Chand published a report in 'Aap Abhitak' newspaper based on a press conference addressed by Congress candidate Dolly Sharma. The headline was 'BJP has made land mafia Atul Garg the Lok Sabha candidate'. The report mentioned the land grabbing allegations made by Dolly Sharma against Atul Garg and his family members.
Atul Garg won the Lok Sabha elections from Ghaziabad with 8.54 lakh votes. While Dolly Sharma stood second with 5.17 lakh votes. Nearly six months after this report was published, Atul Garg filed a defamation complaint against Dolly Sharma and the newspaper's editor-in-chief Imran Khan on 6 October. On the same day, the police registered a case under IPC sections 500 (defamation), 501 (publishing defamatory matter), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace), 120B (criminal conspiracy) as well as section 66 of the Information Technology Act. FIR registered under.
MP Atul Garg has written in his complaint that “India Alliance candidate Dolly Sharma defamed in a press conference and made misleading, false, fabricated allegations without facts and evidence or documents that Atul Garg (applicant) is a land mafia and said that This is not just an allegation, I also have evidence that Atul Garg has occupied approximately 31000 square meters of government land. Baseless allegations have been made to tarnish his image in the society, whereas the applicant is not a land mafia but an elite and respectable person with an honest image.
In his complaint, MP Atul Garg has said that the allegations of being a land mafia were deliberately leveled by Dolly Sharma against the applicant and as part of a well-planned conspiracy, with the help and collaboration of Imran Khan of 'AAP Abhitak', the reputation and image of the applicant was tarnished in the society. With the aim of tarnishing the image, it was broadcasted on YouTube channels, portals and published and publicized in newspapers. This has caused mental and physical pain to the applicant and has damaged his social reputation.
After the FIR was registered against him on October 6, Imran Khan, the editor-in-chief of 'Aap Abhitak', had published an editorial in the October 9 issue of this newspaper. In this he wrote, “Governments have been coming and going. Representatives have also been elected and changed, but the freedom of the press has never been stopped. But in Ghaziabad, under the repressive policy of freedom of expression, the press i.e. those who raise the voice of the people The work of suppressing the voice of the writers means that the press no longer has the freedom to write or show what the organizer said by putting pressure on the government machinery. A case has been filed against the owner of a reputed media organization when the exact words said by the organizer in the press conference are being targeted. Used to be .
“What action should not be taken against those who threaten the fourth pillar of the country in the name of litigation, mentally harass them and tarnish the image of the fourth pillar? Because if a journalist cannot write news independently then the media institutions should be closed. should give .
Imran Khan's nephew Noman Khan said that after being arrested, Imran Khan said that we stand with the truth. I will write whatever is true. If we suppress our pens, we will not be called journalists. Expressing concern over the arrest of Imran Khan, the Press Club of India tweeted that shooting the messenger has now become a new normal in the entire country. We urge the UP government to make police personnel aware about the functioning and functioning of journalists.
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