HC grants interim protection from arrest to journalist

NEWDELHI: The Delhi High Court has granted interim protection from arrest to activist-journalist Sushil Pandit, who has been booked for allegedly tweeting fake news related to the “death” of five CRPF personnel in a militant attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pampore area in May last year.

The court noted that he has already approached the Jammu and Kashmir high court for quashing of the FIR and for interim protection . “It is clarified that protection to the petitioner shall continue till the time the application of the petitioner is taken up for consideration by the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir ,” Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva said.