BIHAR CM CALLS AN INQUIRY BUT NO ARRESTS

MEDIA ACTION FORUM, set up in 2000 to fight against growing incidents of assaults against journalists during their course of duty, takes up the assault of Aaj Tak journalist and other mediapersons when they went to cover the Samadhi story, and meet Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar and demand a full probe into the Samadhi and the assault on journalists.
The chief minister first says he has no sympathy for journalists who do stories on supersitions like a Ganesha appearing on a tree near the State secretariat but on having a closer look the MAF resolution plus the CD of the samadhi, he asks the chief secretary to look into the matter.