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Monday, August 4, 2014

National Investion Agency snoops in Kochi All India Radio, quizzes staff


DC | K.P. SETHUNATH | August 04, 2014, 06.08 am IST



KOCHI: A team of officials from Kochi unit of the National Investigation Agency has seized tapes of several bulletins of Samakalikam, a popular current affairs prorgamme, broadcast by the Kochi unit of All India Radio on the suspicion that they contain 'subversive messages' in support of Maoists.
 
The NIA team questioned Ms Aradhana, a member of the panel of causal artistes of AIR unit in Kochi, in connection with the incident. The action of NIA, having serious implications for media freedom, was confirmed to DC by a top AIR official in Kochi.

 

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