Andhra Pradesh - Eluru   

Media comes under criticism

Staff Reporter

ELURU: The review meeting of the Vigilance and Monitoring Committee on cases of atrocities on SCs and STs held here on Saturday sidetracked the scheduled agenda for a while to train guns on the media.

The meeting turned its focus on the media when Eluru DSP M. Peddaiah took out a piece of news item published in a local eveninger against Collector Lav Agarwal from his file and read it out. The editor of the eveninger happened to be on the statutory committee.

It all began when Namburi Bose, member of the committee and editor of the eveninger sought to highlight the `inaction' by the police in a case of atrocity on an SC girl reported in Eluru police sub-division.

The DSP expressed his serious reservations over the daily targeting the Collector.

Even as the editor was asserting that he had only exercised his right to freedom of expression by publishing such an item, the Collector requested the media to be responsible in publication of news and restrain from casting aspersions against individual officers.

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