A meeting of journalists convened by the Madras Reporters Guild on Wednesday to discuss the attacks on mediapersons including TNIE photographer Albin Mathew, during the past few days, demanded that the management of the IIT should take immediate action against Professor Prakash M Maiya and the security guards who assaulted the photo journalist.
The meeting also urged the Police to take action against the professor and security guards and the IIT management for attempting to indulge in vexatious, frivolous and baseless complaints. The meeting adopted resolutions to this effect.
The meeting also resolved to stand by the journalists who faced problems and to intensify forms of protest if necessary corrective action was not taken by the respective managements concerned in the incidents.
They condemned the attitude of the IIT management for indulging in diversionary tactics by trying to level charges against Albin Mathew. The photographer had not taken any objectionable picture as alleged by the IIT Director Bhaskar Ramamurthy. “ The camera used by Mathew is with Kotturpuram police and an examination of the same would prove that the IIT Director’s charge is wrong,” a resolution said.
The meeting also noted with concern, the recent attacks on representatives of Pudhiya Thalaimurai TV channel at Tiruneermalai two days ago while they were covering illegal quarrying there and on Win TV crew at Dharmapuri while covering the illegal quarrying there.
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