Journalists’ bodies – including DIGIPUB News India Foundation (DNIF) and the Editors Guild of India (EGI) – have condemned the arrest warrant issued by a court in Gujarat for senior journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurta for the alleged defamation of the Adani Group in an article co-authored by the journalist in in 2017.
In a statement issued on Thursday, the DNIF said that the Adani group had “pursued this matter against Paranjoy Thakurta relentlessly. DIGIPUB News India Foundation calls upon the Adani group to desist from such intimidation of a journalist who is doing his job. The article is a piece of journalism and cases being filed against Thakurta for it undermines the right to freedom of expression that’s guaranteed to journalists – and indeed every citizen – by India’s Constitution.”
— source newsclick.in | 21 Jan 2021