NYT running smear campaign against India: Union minister Anurag Thakur
Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur slammed The New York Times (NYT) chairman A G Sulzberger on Thursday for his claims that journalists are treated as terrorists in India.
Speaking at a UNESCO event on World Press Freedom Day on Wednesday, Sulzberger said in India, authorities have raided newsrooms and treated journalists essentially as terrorists.
Thakur asserted that the law took its own course in India in case of any wrongdoing and no one can claim immunity citing the status of being a media organisation.
"In India law takes its own course if someone does something wrong, newsroom or no newsroom. Mere claiming the status of a newsroom does not grant immunity from unlawful deeds," he wrote on Twitter.
Thakur wondered how any investigation amounts to an attack on the press.
"Is it prudent to be a loose mouth and say journalists in India are treated as terrorists?" the minister asked.
He accused the NYT of running a "smear campaign" against India and using