Tharoor and six journos now face FIRs in 5 states | India News
NEW DELHI/GURGAON/NOIDA/BENGALURU: A day after Congress MP Shashi Tharoor and six senior journalists, including Rajdeep Sardesai, were booked for sedition and other crimes at Noida’s Sector 20 police station, similar FIRs with same charges were registered against them in Gurgaon and Bengaluru on Friday. On Thursday, the Noida police had filed FIR against Tharoor, Sardesai, Mrinal Pande, Zafar Agha, Paresh Nath, Anant Nath, Vinod K Jose and ‘others’ under charges of sedition, promoting enmity and other sections of IPC for “broadcasting and tweeting misleading news” about a protester...