India: Multiple cases filed against journalist who reported Ram temple donation theft
New Delhi : Uttar Pradesh police have registered multiple cases against journalist Abhishek Upadhyay, who reported the Ram temple donation theft in India, and he is being continuously harassed.
According to Kashmir Media Service, journalist Abhishek Upadhyay says that the Ghaziabad police are harassing him and his family.
In a post on X on August 21, Upadhyay said that police personnel reached his house and questioned his family. He said these raids are part of a series of constant harassment.
Upadhyay is among the few journalists who exposed corruption and donation theft at the Ram temple in Ayodhya, after which the matter made headlines across the country, led to resignations and a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the matter.
In a later post, Upadhyay said the Ghaziabad police are not providing a copy of the FIR registered against him. He said despite repeatedly asking for a copy of the FIR since last night, a police officer sent him a page that neither mentioned the legal provisions imposed nor any details of the alleged crime. Later, the police sent him a copy of an old FIR registered against him in Lucknow.
Upadhyay questioned whether the police were doing this deliberately so that he could not find out on what charges the policemen who reached his house late at night came to detain him.
In his interaction with journalists, Upadhyay also mentioned an old FIR. He said that in it, Yogi Adityanath was described as ‘Aishwarya’ and I was described as an agent of foreign funders. It seems that no one can write or speak anything against him.
Upadhyay said the police are behind him, ignoring the legal and constitutional safeguards. He said that he had brought the news of the theft in the Ram temple on June 7 and since then, complaints and FIRs against him have become a daily occurrence. “I am exposing their corruption, that is their problem,” he maintained.
