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This story is from August 30, 2021

Uttar Pradesh: Four held for thrashing scribes who exposed ‘illegal’ vaccination drive in Barabanki

Four persons were arrested on Sunday for allegedly thrashing journalists who had gone to cover 'illegal' vaccination of residents of Manpur village under Jaitpur police station area of Barabanki during the night time on Saturday. Superintendent of police, Barabanki Yamuna Prasad said an FIR had been registered in connection with the case.
Uttar Pradesh: Four held for thrashing scribes who exposed ‘illegal’ vaccination drive in Barabanki
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LUCKNOW: Four persons were arrested on Sunday for allegedly thrashing journalists who had gone to cover 'illegal' vaccination of residents of Manpur village under Jaitpur police station area of Barabanki during the night time on Saturday. Superintendent of police, Barabanki Yamuna Prasad said an FIR had been registered in connection with the case.
Chief medical officer, Barabanki, Dr Ramji Verma, told TOI that an unauthorised drive was being carried out in Jaitpur and the district magistrate has ordered a probe.

“A four-member team comprising Additional CMO (administration) Dr KNN Tripathi, district immunisation officers Dr Rajiv Kumar Singh and Chatrik Singh and superintendent of CHC Dr Sunil Jaiswal has been formed to probe the incident,” the CMO said.
The FIR was registered by Nitin Srivastava, Sarfaraz Warsi, Parvez Alam and Mohamed Razi Siddiqui, all residents of Barabanki. All the complainants are journalists working for different news channels/newspapers.
According to the FIR, the above named journalists got the news that some health workers were carrying out 'unauthorised' vaccination drive in Manpur village around 9 pm on Saturday.
When they reached the scene, the group of people who had assembled outside the house of one Anant Kumar Verma attacked the mediapersons for recording the event and asking questions about the legality of the vaccination drive at that point of time.

The complainants alleged that the health workers and the villagers snatched their mobile phones, damaged their cameras and looted cash/gold ornaments from some of the mediapersons.
“We were locked in a room where the attackers brought kerosene oil to burn all of us. They also were holding weapons in their hands and wanted to kill us,” the complainants alleged.
They said a heavy police force, led by senior police and administrative officials, reached the venue on time to rescue them.
SP Prasad said an FIR under the charges of attempt to murder, robbery with attempt to cause death, criminal intimidation, punishment for wrongful confinement, using criminal force to assault, negligent act endangering human life had been registered against 18 villagers and 60 unidentified persons.
He also said that four persons had been arrested and efforts to nail others were underway.
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