UP police arrests journalist Prashant Kanojia from Delhi for spreading fake news
Prashant was reportedly taken to the Vasant Vihar police station in the Capital and will be shifted to Lucknow thereafter.
New Delhi: Journalist Prashant Kannaujia has once again been arrested by the Uttar Pradesh Police on charges of inciting people and spreading riots through fake news. A case was filed against Prashant Kannaujia for the controversial tweet at Hazratganj police station in Lucknow.
He was reportedly taken to the Vasant Vihar police station in the Capital and will be shifted to Lucknow thereafter.
Freelance journalist Prashant Kanojia arrested by Uttar Pradesh Police from his Delhi residence over a social media post about Ayodhya’s Ram Temple. (File Photo) pic.twitter.com/SES675AOhV
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Last year, Kanojia, a former journalist at The Wire Hindi, was arrested by the Uttar Pradesh Police for social media posts he wrote about Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Adityanath. The first information report against the journalist alleged that he made comments “maligning the image of the chief minister”. He was released from jail on June 19, 2019, by the Supreme Court.
The charges against Kanojia related to a video he had shared on Twitter, which showed a woman speaking to reporters outside the chief minister’s office, claiming that she had been talking to Adityanath over video chat and had sent a marriage proposal to him.