chhattisgarh police told zee anchor rohit ranjan absconding; SC to hear his plea on Thursday

The Supreme Court will on Thursday hear a plea by a TV anchor, seeking protection from arrest over “distorted video” of the Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Whereas the Chhattisgarh Police issued summons after failing to trace the journalist to the National Capital Region.

On Tuesday, Rohit Ranjan was chased away by police from Noida in BJP-ruled Uttar Pradesh, nearly thwarting his arrest by a team from Congress-run Chhattisgarh that had landed at his Ghaziabad home hours earlier. He was arrested and released on bail by him later the same day. On Wednesday, the team from Chhattisgarh again visited his house and the offices of Zee News in Noida.

Senior Superintendent of Police Prashant Agarwal told PTI-language in Raipur, ‘Ranjan is absconding and a search is on for him. The Chhattisgarh team pasted the notice outside Ranjan’s house in Indirapuram, Ghaziabad. A Chhattisgarh official said on condition of anonymity that he and some of his associates have been asked to come to Raipur on July 12 to record their statements in connection with the probe.

The Congress filed a complaint with the News Broadcasting and Digital Standards Authority against Zee News and anchors in Kerala for broadcasting Gandhi’s comments with “distorted and malicious interpretation” and demanded action against them.

Ranjan has earlier apologized for playing “mistakenly” by linking Gandhi’s statement on the vandalism of his office in Kerala’s Wayanad to the recent murder in Udaipur, where two men killed a tailor on “insult to Islam”. Was. Zee TV has sacked two producers, holding them responsible.

The matter reached the Supreme Court on Wednesday.

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