‘Withdraw FIRs against journalists’

Mumbai: The Mumbai

Press Club

condemned the filing of multiple FIRs nationwide against

journalists

and publishers. It demanded that FIRs against six journalists — Rajdeep Sardesai, Mrinal Pande, Vinod Jose, Zafar Agha, Paresh Nath and Anant Nath — be withdrawn, and urged the

Centre

to stop using “coercive and threatening practices...”. A statement signed by club president Gurbir Singh read, “The FIRs have been filed in Delhi as well as in some BJP-ruled states... There was clear intelligence lapse on the part of the Delhi Police... In these circumstances, to pin blame on the journalists for being responsible for the violence and disruption, is reprehensible...” TNN