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JAIPUR: A journalist in Tonk, Nasir Khan, was arrested on Saturday for disrupting peace in the city through his Facebook posts in which he had been writing about the scarcity of oxygen in the city’s Saadat government hospital, accusing the local administration of mishandling the Covid-19 situation, and also highlighting the absence of the local MLA, Sachin Pilot, when people are facing a grave crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Khan, in turn, has alleged that police snatched his mobile phone and posted an “absurd” denial of his accusations on his Facebook page without verifying if they were true or not.
For the past few weeks, Khan, who works for a local newspaper, has been writing about the “mishandling” of the Covid situation by the local administation. Police called him on Saturday afternoon and rebuked him for spreading misinformation. “They didn’t stop at that and took my phone to post an absurd post which is still present on my Facebook timeline. It reads, ‘The posts made by me highlighting the shortage of Remidesivir and oxygen was a mistake by me and a result of nightmares I am witnessing. In Tonk district, police and local administration is doing a great job and we have all medical requirements and resources at the civil hospital.”
Circle officer (Kotwali) in Tonk, Chandraveer Rawat said Khan was arrested under CrPC Section 151 for disrupting peace with his posts. “Our senior police officers and collector’s office was upset over his post made in recent days. He was arrested for disrupting peace and was granted bail soon after,” said Rawat.
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