People's Democracy
(Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)
No. 07
February 17, 2013
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Vol. XXXVII
No. 07 February 17, 2013 |
DUJ Condemns Scribe’s
Detention THE
Delhi Union of
Journalists (DUJ) has condemned the unwarranted and
blatantly illegal action of
the Delhi Police in detaining a renowned journalist and
well known writer,
Iftikhar Gilani, and harassing his family on February 9,
2013. Through
a statement issued
on February 10, 2013, the DUJ has taken stern note of
the fact that this was
not the first time Gilani had been subjected to this
sort of agony and trauma. On
receiving the information
about Gilani’s illegal detention, DUJ general secretary
S K Pande tried to get
in touch with the Delhi Police commissioner and other
concerned authorities, but
in vain. The commissioner’s office informed that the
commissioner was
unavailable, while other officers played hide and seek.
The
Delhi Union of
Journalists has said it would organise protest meetings
and actions in
consultation with other organisations of journalists and
press in In
the meanwhile, the DUJ demanded
immediate action against the police officials who are
responsible for this
manifestly illegal act of detaining Gilani.
