'There is no reason why Kashmiri journalist Sanna Irshad Mattoo, who had all the right travel documents and has won a Pulitzer.should have been prevented from traveling abroad.'
Several highlighted the wide disparity between the police's treatment of personalities who routinely spew hate speech and the way the fact-checker has been taken to task for a 2018 tweet.
The Delhi Police named Naqvi in an FIR over social media posts that were allegedly 'trying to disrupt public tranquility.' Also named were the BJP leaders who spoke against the Prophet as well as other Hindutva personalities notorious for hate speeches.
Press Club of India, on Friday (June 10), condemned Delhi Police for registering FIR against journalist Saba Naqvi and demanded to withdraw her name from