Lawfare, General – Journalists

A case has been registered against a Malayalam TV news channel and its staff journalist for promoting enmity between different religious groups through its coverage of the October 29 blasts at a gathering of the Christian sect Jehovah’s Witnesses in Kochi, police officers familiar with the matter said on Thursday.

According to the police, the FIR was filed on October 31 against Reporter TV and its coordinating editor Sujaya Parvathy on the basis of a complaint filed by Yasin Arafath, a resident of Kalamassery in Kochi.