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NEW DELHI — The Supreme Court on Monday extended till September 15 the protection from coercive action it has granted to four members of the Editors Guild of

For its report on Manipur, FIR was lodged against four members of the EGI. A three-member fact-finding team of EGI after visiting Manipur, published its report in New Delhi recently, claiming that the medias reports on the ethnic violence in Manipur were one-sided, and accused the state leadership of being partisan.

Manipurs principal chief conservator of forests S.S. Chhabra in a seven-page letter to the Manipur government said the allegations against the forest department in the report -- published by the three-member EGI team after a recent four-day visit to in the state -- are "wrong" and "unverified", and they have "led to misinformation... and tarnished the reputation of the forest department.

Manipur's top forest officer has written to the state government denying allegations made by a fact-finding team of the Editors' Guild of India (EGI) that the N Biren Singh government did not follow due procedure in clearing hill encroachments.

A woman in Manipur who filed the second police case against the Editors' Guild of India (EGI) chief and three members of its fact-finding team has requested for the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to take over the case.

The matter was mentioned for urgent listing before a bench headed by Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud.

The PUCL strongly condemns the two motivated and malicious FIRs filed by the Manipur police against 3 members of a Fact-Finding Team constituted by the

The Indian Supreme Court today protected four members of the Editors Guild of India against any coercive action till Monday in connection with two FIRs lodged in the ethnic strife-affected north eastern state of Manipur

The BBC and the Editors’ Guild of India are facing the government’s wrath for criticizing the state of media affairs.

The Editors Guild of India on Tuesday said Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh's statements in response to its report on the media coverage of the ethnic violence in the state were "intimidatory"