Sting op case: Scribe moves SC for probe into jawan's death
April 11, 2017  19:28
A woman scribe, booked under the stringent Official Secrets Act for carrying out a sting operation inside an army camp in Nasik, today moved the Supreme Court seeking a court-monitored probe into the mysterious death of a 33-year-old jawan.

Delhi-based journalist Poonam Agarwal, working with a news portal, had entered the camp and carried out the sting operation on the alleged abuse of the "buddy" system in the army by videographing Roy Mathew, a jawan from Kerala who was found dead last month. 

Nasik police lodged an FIR against Agarwal and retired army official Deep Chand under IPC provisions and Sections 3 (spying) and 7 (interfering with officers of police or members of the armed forces of the Union) of the Official Secrets Act.

Besides asking for a court-monitored probe, the plea, filed through lawyers Prashant Kumar and Anindita Pujari, has sought issuance of guidelines to prevent "abuse" of the provisions of the OSA.
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