Noida: A team of Chhattisgarh Police reached Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday morning to arrest television news presenter Rohit Ranjan from his house in connection with a news broadcast showing Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s statement in “wrong context”. But he was arrested by the Noida Police and released on bail at night. Officials gave this information. The police of Congress-ruled Chhattisgarh reached the residence of Ranjan, a news presenter of private news channel ‘Zee News’ in Indirapuram in Ghaziabad in the early hours, and a police team from Noida in Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ruled Uttar Pradesh reached his house a few hours later.
Officials said that the Chhattisgarh police reached around 5.30 am, while the local Ghaziabad police arrived after an hour and the Noida police reached there after 8 am. A Noida Police official, on condition of anonymity, said, “Based on a complaint lodged by his own channel regarding the tampering video that was aired during Ranjan’s show on July 1, IPC section 505 (Public mischief) an FIR was registered. In connection with the same FIR, a team of Noida Sector 20 police station took him into custody from his house for questioning on Tuesday morning.
Noida Police said in a statement after more than 12 hours that Ranjan was arrested from his Ghaziabad home and the arrest was made under Section 505(2) of the Indian Penal Code (causing or promoting enmity, hatred or ill-will between classes). statement) has been made under investigation. In a statement, police said, “Ze News anchor Rohit Ranjan was brought to Noida from his residence in Indrapuram for questioning in the case. After interrogation, he was arrested on the basis of evidence. He has been released on bail because The section against him is a bailable offence. Further investigation is on in the matter.”
Meanwhile, in Chhattisgarh’s capital Raipur, Superintendent of Police Prashant Agrawal said that on the complaint of Congress MLA Devendra Yadav, Ranjan and other Zee News personnel were on Sunday accused of promoting enmity between different groups and hurting the religious sentiments of the people. A case was registered on the allegation. Yadav has alleged in his complaint that the video in which Rahul called the vandals of his Wayanad office as children and said that he had no ill-will towards them, was shot by a TV channel on July 1. Mischievously used” to show that Rahul is talking about pardoning the killers of Kanhaiya Lal, a tailor in Udaipur.
In the case of complaint lodged against Ranjan, the police of both the states of Uttar Pradesh and Chhattisgarh reached his house to arrest him. Meanwhile, a senior police officer of Ghaziabad Police told PTI that the local city police is not involved in the matter. Tagging Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and the state police, Ranjan tweeted, “Chhattisgarh Police is standing outside my house to arrest me without informing the local police, is this legal? ,
In response to Ranjan’s tweet, Raipur Police said, “There is no rule to inform. However, now they have been informed. The police team has shown you the arrest warrant of the court. You should cooperate in the investigation and defend yourself in court.” An FIR has been lodged against Ranjan in Raipur for showing Rahul Gandhi’s statement in “wrong context”. The Chhattisgarh Police was unable to arrest them, and a member of the team led by a DSP-level officer alleged that the local police barricaded.
He claimed that the Ghaziabad police intervened in the legal process by taking Ranjan from his house and then it was later told that the Noida police had taken him into custody. “We have registered a criminal case against Rohit Ranjan at Civil Lines police station in Raipur. We have an arrest warrant and a court order. We came here in the morning about the same thing, but even after 12 hours the police here (of Ghaziabad and Noida) are not telling us about Rohit Ranjan where he is.
Indian Penal Code Section 153A (promoting enmity between two different classes), 295A (willful and malicious act with intent to outrage religious feelings of any class), 467 (forgery), 469 (damage to reputation) of Indian Penal Code An FIR has been registered under sections (forgery to deliver) and 504 (intentional insult).
These are serious allegations as compared to the case registered by the Noida Police, the officials said. Earlier, on July 2, Ranjan had apologized for linking Gandhi’s statement “in the wrong context” to the Udaipur massacre in his TV program. The program was aired a day before this. Ranjan had tweeted, “Rahul Gandhi’s statement in our show DNA went in the wrong context by linking it to the Udaipur incident. This was a human error, for which our team apologizes. We do apologize for that.”
Several people, including BJP leaders, used the video in a wrong context to attack Gandhi and the Congress in the wake of the brutal murder of tailor Kanhaiya Lal in Rajasthan’s Udaipur. Bilaspur and Raipur, Chhattisgarh in case of showing Rahul Gandhi’s video in “wrong context”
