Reiterating its long-standing demand to scrap the criminal defamation law, the Editors Guild of India (EGI) has expressed serious concern over the misuse of criminal defamation laws against journalists to intimidate and harass them. Such matters be left to be adjudicated in the civil domain, EGI says.
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Vijay Kant Pathak, the resident editor of Prabhat Khabar, had written to the CM that Chaturvedi received a call from a person named Yogendra Tiwari, who is lodged in the Birsa Munda Central Jail, and was threatened over some recent reports naming him.