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Indian TV host and compulsive insinuator Arnab Goswami has been named in an FIR by Chattisgarh police for allegedly destroying an environment of harmony by inflammatory remarks on the basis of community and creating animosity among communities through his remarks during a debate on national TV.
Two separate complaints were lodged against Goswami by Chhattisgarh health minister TS Singhdeo and PCC chief Mohan Markam at civil lines police station in Raipur on Wednesday. The TV host has been held accountable “for spreading rumours, playing communal canards in the context of Palghar mob-lynching case”.
A case against Republic TV chief has been registered under various IPC Sections of 153A (promoting enmity between different groups), 295 A (Deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings) and 502 (2) (making statements that create enmity and hatred between different classes).
The Congress leaders had also lodged police complaints in various districts seeking the arrest of Goswami at which he had been flinging comic jolts during his recent shows. The leaders came down heavily against Republic TV editor-in-chief for allegedly propagating hate-mongering rumours and attempting to defame Congress president Sonia Gandhi during one of the debates.
“The false and spiteful remarks by Arnab Goswami can’t be cited as journalism. He is into spreading the same hate-mongering and baseless rumours that the trained cadres of the RSS are doing on the social media platforms”, stated Shailesh Nitin Trivedi, the Chairman of Congress Media Cell.
The Congress leaders have been demanding his arrest.
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