”It is very unfortunate to be arrested for publishing fair news against political corruption.”
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President of Janata Samajwadi Party, Nepal, Upendra Yadav has stated that Kailash Sirohia, President of Kantipur Media Group, was arrested in a biased and vindictive manner. President Yadav, issuing a press release on Wednesday, said that the arrest of Sirohia has drawn the party's serious attention.
In a statement issued by President Yadav, it is said, 'We believe that attacking Kantipur media, which has been fighting for democracy for a long time, is a brutal attack on democracy, press freedom and freedom of expression.'
President Yadav has also said that it is unfortunate that he was arrested because he published fair news against political corruption. It is further said in the statement, 'He should be released immediately by stopping the act of terrorizing the communication sector by abusing the state machinery. The government is warned not to repeat such prejudicial incidents in the future.'
The chairman of Kantipur Media Group, Sirohia, was arrested from the office on Tuesday on the pretext that the citizenship number given by the district administration matched that of another person.
The police team reached the eighth floor office of the Kantipur office to arrest President Sirohia while he was at work trampling on the democratic practice of not allowing security agencies of the state to enter the office of the independent press. A team including SSP Sanukumar Bhattarai and SP Ravindra Regmi of the Valley Crime Investigation Office Kathmandu entered the working room with police officers including Bardi.
On Tuesday in Kantipur, Gorkha Media published news under the title of embezzlement of 958.1 million rupees by four cooperatives, during the period when Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Ravi Lamichhane was the managing director of the company, 803.1 million rupees were received from cooperatives in Gorkha Media. A large number of police were mobilized in the Kantipur office complex and Thapathali road from early morning.
Sirohia was taken away by Bardidhari police in the presence of journalists federation, media society, lawyers, civil leaders, parliamentarians, various media publishers and journalists at the Kantipur office complex.
