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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 media's reports on the ethnic violence in Manipur were one-sided, and accused the state leadership of being partisan.
Manipur's 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.