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Pressmen's Rights

Extract from Editorial: Pressmen and photographers watching the dispersal of a public meeting held in violation of a Sec.144 order in a Calcutta locality were set upon by the police, beaten, and arrested. At the intervention of the Home Minister, they were later released. It is remarkable that a Commissioner of Police is unaware that pressmen too have their rights and assume that when observing an unlawful assembly they can be beaten.

He has since directed the police to show due courtesy to Press personnel. But the West Bengal Government should seriously, consider the need for a public enquiry into this matter.

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