{"id":313140,"date":"2019-06-09T08:25:44","date_gmt":"2019-06-09T08:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=313140"},"modified":"2019-06-09T08:27:40","modified_gmt":"2019-06-09T08:27:40","slug":"journalist-tv-channel-head-editor-arrested-for-objectionable-posts-against-cm-yogi-adityanath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/journalist-tv-channel-head-editor-arrested-for-objectionable-posts-against-cm-yogi-adityanath\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalist, TV Channel head, editor, arrested for &#8216;objectionable&#8217; posts against CM Yogi Adityanath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-299679 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Yogi-Adityanath-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"409\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/Yogi-Adityanath-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/Yogi-Adityanath-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/Yogi-Adityanath-1-420x420.jpg 420w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/Yogi-Adityanath-1.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 409px) 100vw, 409px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A journalist\u00a0was arrested by Uttar Pradesh police on Saturday for allegedly sharing an \u2018objectionable\u2019 post against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, said police.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The head of a private television news channel and its editor too were arrested in Noida for broadcasting defamatory content on Yogi Adityanath, police added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the sources, Prashant Kanojia had shared a video on Twitter and Facebook where a woman is seen speaking to reporters outside Yogi Adityanath&#8217;s office, claiming that she had sent him a marriage proposal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">An FIR was registered on Friday night against Kanojia, a Delhi based journalist, in which it was alleged that he had tried to &#8220;malign&#8221; the Chief Minister&#8217;s image.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The charges against Kanojia include Sections 500 (criminal defamation)) of the\u00a0Indian Penal Code (IPC) and\u00a0relevant sections of the Information Technology Act.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the officials, Ishika Singh, who heads the channel and Anuj Shukla, its editor, were arrested following a police\u00a0 complaint against the news channel for broadcasting the claims of the woman without verifying facts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Several people on Twitter condemned the journalist&#8217;s arrest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A journalist\u00a0was arrested by Uttar Pradesh police on Saturday for allegedly sharing an \u2018objectionable\u2019 post against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, said police. The head of a private television news channel and its editor too were arrested in Noida for broadcasting defamatory content on Yogi Adityanath, police added. According to the sources, Prashant Kanojia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":299679,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2014,2015],"tags":[11468,283,284],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313140"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313144,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313140\/revisions\/313144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}