Threats – Journalists

The Delhi ruling party MLA Somnath Bharti on Wednesday was booked with charges of hurling abuses at a woman journalist, however the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader claimed that the TV news channel was “misusing” its power. His party although has disapproved his comment. In the FIR, a woman journalist working with a private news channel has alleged that Bharti called her name and asked to become a prostitute.

“During a live TV debate, the Malviya Nagar MLA, Somnath Bharti, hurled abuses at me and told me to become a prostitute. I am a journalist and understand out responsibility when I asked the question but he abused me, called me an agent of the BJP. He threatened to get our channel shut down. The kind of words he used with a woman, they were offensive and demeaning,” she alleged.

The complaint has been filed in IPC sections 504( intentional insult with an intent to provoke breach of the peace) and 509. (Insulting a woman’s modesty through words, gestures or an act).