Tripura Police detained two journalists from Delhi for inciting communal enmity. Agartala News – Times of India

Agartala: Two located in Delhi journalists has been detained by Tripura Police After an FIR was registered against him for inciting communal tension.
The journalists – identified as Samridhi K Sakuniya and Swaran Jha – were served notices to record their statements. They had arrived in the state on Thursday to cover up the alleged communal flare-up.

They had gone to Kakraban in Udaipur in Gomti district on arrival, then bordering minority-dominated areas to the west. Tripura and Sipahijala district. Later, they went to Fatikroy in Unokoti district on Saturday, where an under-construction mosque in Pal Bazar area was allegedly vandalized by a Hindu group.
According to the police, the Fatikroy police station registered an FIR against Samridhi and Swarna on Saturday night following specific complaints of inciting local Muslims and forcing them to make statements against the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) for setting the Pal Bazar mosque on fire. was established for. Jai Shri Ram slogan on 23rd October.
After this, both the journalists left the district and stayed in a hotel in Dharmanagar, the district headquarters of North Tripura. The police reached the hotel in the night to serve notice under section 153-A under section 120(b) of IPC for promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion and for being a part of criminal conspiracy.

Some reports say that when the police reached them in the night, they did not get the notice.
“Instead, they made a call to a lawyer in Delhi claiming to have spoken to Kapil Sibal. They were planning to catch a local train early in the morning. Agartala For his onward journey to Delhi. But the police stopped them at the hotel. After some time, a lawyer came, and then he got the notice and we allowed him to travel to Agartala, where he will have to submit his statement on November 21,” said a senior police officer.
The story of burning of Quran in a mosque in Kakraban in Gomti district was allegedly fabricated by accused journalists, leading to violence in Maharashtra for the last two days. Police claimed that the journalists are also part of the team that has been touring the state for the past two weeks and spreading false information about the communal violence.
Citing the police’s allegations, Swarna Jha claimed in a series of tweets that she spoke to locals about the damage caused to a mosque and shared a copy of the FIR which mentions a rally of the VHP. In another tweet where he detailed the claims of locals affiliated to a right-wing group that is believed to have led to violence in Maharashtra’s Amravati district on Saturday.