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Bastar journalist threatened with FIR for report that “damaged” administration’s image

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Chhattisgarh government issued a show-cause notice to Neeraj Shivhare, a journalist with Bastar ki Aawaz, for reporting on the plight of a woman who had to sell her household items to arrange food during the COVID-19 lockdown which the authorities said had “damaged the image of the administration”.

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