NDTV's Ravish Kumar says death threats have increased
25 May 2018 5:50 PM GMT
New Delhi: NDTV's senior journalist Ravish Kumar alleged on Friday that the frequency of abusive calls and death threats that he has been receiving since 2015 have increased manifold in the last month.
The latest in the series is from an ex-CISF jawan who has sent him a video message threatening to shoot him in his office. Another person who claims to be from the Bajrang Dal in Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh has been sending him exact details of his residence address, the route he takes from home to office, threatening to kill him and rape the women in his family.
"It is all well organised and has political sanction," Kumar told The Hindu on Friday. His countless complaints to police in Ghaziabad and in Greater Kailash has led to no action.
Last year he wrote an open letter to PM Modi detailing about these threats but drew no response from him. "I don't think escalating the matter to PM will make any difference to him, in fact he will happily start following the very persons who are abusing and trolling me," he added. In a similar case of online trolling and abuse against independent journalist Rana Ayub, UN's human rights experts issued a statement calling for Indian authorities to act to protect Ayyub.
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