Highlights
- Case filed against 3 journalists in Kanpur Dehat district
- Journalists had been not even present at the occasion, mentioned an official
- All the guests at the occasion can be observed clad in winter put on
Kanpur:
Three journalists in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur have been accused of “public mischief” and “criminal intimidation” in a very first info report (FIR) filed against them more than a news report, which alleged that quite a few government college students “shivered in biting cold while government officials were busy with an event” final week.
The journalists in Kanpur Dehat district, 170 km from state capital Lucknow, work for the nearby Television channel that aired the news report. In his police complaint, Sunil Dutt, the district Basic Education Officer, has alleged the journalists had been not even present at the occasion, and however they “misrepresented the ‘yoga and exercise’ programme that was conducted on Sunday to mark “UP Diwas” or the state’s foundation day.
Visuals from the programme, attended by the district magistrate, a state minister and local MLAs show the children in what appears to be their summer uniform, holding toy guns.
Another clip shows them in a room, performing exercises. A third clip, also shot indoors, shows them performing the “head stand” or ‘shirshasana’ in their summer uniform.
All the guests at the event can be seen clad in winter wear.
However, as per the UP official’s complaint, the children were made to take off their winter wear only for the exercises.
“It is well-known that yoga and physical exercises cannot be carried out in winter wear and requires loose clothing. Local education officials followed this, and made the children take off their winter clothing and wear loose and light clothes for the exercises and then all the children immediately put on their winter wear again,” the complaint reads.
A day after the event, a student who reportedly took part in the event, told reporters that a local teacher asked them to change their dress for the exercises. “We went to the venue wearing trousers, and a jacket and changed there,” the student said in the interview.
“I am very pained to see that some journalists, who had been not even there, have published news that the young children had been shivering in the cold. You can see that a youngster who performs Yoga can not do it wearing a sweater or a coat or a pant. These young children have performed really nicely , I appreciate them . Those who have carried this report… we are searching at who has carried out it,” Kanpur dehat district magistrate Dinesh Chandra Singh mentioned on the day of the occasion.