Sahayak Sting: FIR Against Quint Journalist Poonam Agarwal Quashed After 2 Years by Bombay High Court
The QuintThe Bombay High Court on Thursday delivered an important victory for press freedom by quashing an FIR against The Quint’s Poonam Agarwal, which had been filed in relation to a revelatory sting video by her about the abuse of the ‘sahayak’ system in the Army. The criminal case had been registered under the stringent provisions of the Official Secrets Act, as well as for abetment of suicide, after the death of one of the jawans interviewed by her. In the sting video, published on 24 February 2017 by The Quint, Agarwal had recorded conversations of several army jawans, who talked about the menial work they were forced to do as part of the ‘sahayak’ system for officers, with some even accusing the officers of harassment. Nearly two weeks after the video was published and went viral, one of the jawans interviewed by Agarwal, Lance Naik Roy Mathew, went missing.
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