8 mediapersons booked for rioting, violating lockdown

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8 mediapersons booked for rioting, violating lockdown
Hyderabad, Apr 16 (): Eight mediapersons havebeen booked on charge of rioting and violating the EpidemicDiseases Act for allegedly flouting the ongoing lockdownnormsin Khammam district, police said on Thursday. The cases were registered on Wednesday followinga complaint by a sub-jailor, the police said.

The sub-jailor accused the reporters and othersof forcibly entering the revenue guesthouse in Madhira townof the district on the night of April 13where he, threeother government officials, including a Tahsildar and adoctor, were sitting after dinner, and later attempted toassault him, they said.

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The mediapersons were also accused of notmaintaining social distancing norms and coming into the guesthouse as a mob, police said.

On April 14, the Tahsildar, Extension Officer ofthe Panchayat Raj and Rural Development, a government doctorand also the sub-jailor (who subsequently filed the complaintagainst the media persons) were booked under the EpidemicDiseases Act for allegedly violating the ongoing lockdownnorms and organising a liquor party at the guest house.

Based on the complaint of the sub-jailor, anInvestigating official told over phone that the eightmediapersons after forcibly entering the guest houseallegedly argued with the government officials and one ofthem pushed and abused the sub-jailor besides pulling offhis mask and confining the doctor to the bathroom.

The sub-jailor also stated that when he tried torescue the doctor, the mediapersons allegedly restrained himfollowing which he came out of the guesthouse but he waschased and a mediaperson tried to attack him, but he managedto escape and later lodge a complaint with the police. VVKNVG NVG
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