[Assam] EMFA urges for a high level impartial probe

[Nava Thakuria]

Dear
editor,

Here is a statement for your use.

Regards,

Nava Thakuria,

President,

Parag Moni Aditya,

Working President,

Bimal Ghosh,

Secretary,

Bhaskarjyoti Bhuyan,

Treasurer,

Electronic Media Forum Assam,

Guwahati, Assam

 

EMFA urges for a high level impartial probe

Guwahati, July 14: The Electronic Media Forum Assam (EMFA )
has appealed to the Government of Assam to initiate a high level impartial
probe into the allegation leveled by an activist against a television journalist
involved with the incident of molestation of a girl at GS Road of the city on
July 9, 2012 evening. 

In an emergency meeting held at Guwahati Press Club today,
the forum also demanded the State chief minister Tarun Gogoi, also in charge of
Home department, to initiate for a collective analysis of all the forage of the
incident after  forensic test.   

The Krishak Mukti Sangram Samity (KMSS) ladder Akhil Gogoi
had alleged in a press meet yesterday that Gaurav Jyoti Neog of News Live was
involved with the incident of molestation of the girl. The EMFA urged the KMSS
leader to submit the proof to support his allegation, and subsequently the
activist organized a press meet today to expose the involvement of the
journalist in the shameful incident.

The EMFA resolved in the meeting that the visuals presented
by the KMSS leader were not sufficient enough to substantiate all claims made
against the concerned journalist as being the instigator of the incident. The
visuals shown by the activist was not supported by the raw footage of the
incident, rather it was an edited DVD format, where there remains possibility
of doctoring. 

Hence the   forum
demands that FSL test must include the raw footage of the incident (still
possessed by Akhil Gogoi as he claimed in a press meet today), the DVD with the
same content offered to SSP Apurba Jiban Barua by the News Live and the DVD
handed over to EMFA by him after today’s press meet.  

Meanwhile, the forum argues that Gaurav could have (should
have) called the police first from the location of July 9 incident and then
asked the office to send the camerapersons.The EMFA reiterates that it endorses the rule
of law and journalists must behave as the law abiding citizens of the country always.  Hence it believes that the law of the land
will take its own course in this respect as well.