NEW DELHI: Several organizations, representing hundreds of journalists between them, have written to the Chief Justice of India, DY Chandrachud, beseeching him to intervene in the seizure of computers and mobiles from 46 of journalists and writers — of whom two were arrested.
They urged the Chief Justice to urgently lay down rules and grounds that have to be followed before the police are allowed to seize someone’s laptop and mobile phone.
If such norms are not laid down and an element of oversight and control over the police ensure, said the journalists, media cannot be expected to carry out its duty of speaking ‘truth to power’. (Agencies)
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