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Journalist received notice over reporting on lockdown conditions in Varanasi

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Varanasi District Magistrate (DM), Kaushal Raj Sharma issued a notice to journalist Vijay Vineet and his editor-in-chief Subhash Rai after the Jansandesh Times published a report claiming that members of the Musahar community (Dalit) were eating grass to survive at Koiripur village in Varanasi district ever since the lockdown was announced.

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