Case filed against EGI president, members
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, September 04 2023:
An FIR has been lodged against three members of a fact-finding team sponsored by the Editors' Guild of India (EGI), who conducted an investigation into media coverage of the ethnic conflict in Manipur, and its president.
The FIR suggests that the report submitted by the team was "false, fabricated, and sponsored".
The FIR has been registered at Imphal police station, invoking various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), including charges related to promoting enmity between different groups and knowingly presenting false information as true.
The complaint leading to the FIR was filed by N Sarat, a social worker and resident of Sagolband Mabudhou Mantri Leikai.
The FIR was registered against Seema Guha, Sanjay Kapoor, and Bharat Bhushan, who visited Manipur from August 7 to 10 .
Additionally, the president of EGI Seema Mustafa has also been listed as an accused in the FIR.
The FIR highlights an instance where the EGI report captioned a photo of a burning forest beat office in Churachandpur district as a "Kuki house" .