The journalists who fought back in Uttar Pradesh

July 07, 2022 13:17

On March 31, a video caught the attention of many on social media: in it, a man with neatly parted, close-cropped grey hair, surrounded by half a dozen policemen, raised his fist and bellowed slogans in a gravelly voice.

"Ballia DM chor hai, Ballia SP gunda hai.' Ballia's district magistrate is a thief, Ballia's superintendent of police is a thug.

Ballia is the easternmost district of Uttar Pradesh, on the border with Bihar. The man in the video was Digvijay Singh, a reporter for the Hindi daily Amar Ujala, who had been arrested the previous day and was being produced in the court.

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