Prateek Goyal
Articles
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Jan 6, 2025 |
newslaundry.com | Prateek Goyal
Years ago, Mukesh had shared with me the harsh reality of being a journalist in Bastar. “95 percent of journalists in Bastar are non-salaried.”Mukesh Chandrakar was found dead last week. On January 1, Mukesh Chandrakar sent me a link on WhatsApp to a story that he and Nilesh Tripathi had worked on, about the conditions of the schools in Naxal-affected Bastar. Three hours later, he would go missing. I found out about Mukesh from another journalist friend, who had called me on January 3.
After firing bullets at them, Chhattisgarh police allegedly ‘harass,’ ‘forcibly detain’ two children
Dec 23, 2024 |
newslaundry.com | Prateek Goyal
Gaurav Rai, Superintendent of Police, Dantewada told Newslaundry that the children were brought back to the hospital “because their treatment wasn’t complete”.
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Dec 18, 2024 |
newslaundry.com | Prateek Goyal
At 8.30 am on December 11, 14-year-old Chaitram Oyam was with his parents, tending the kosra fields adjoining a jungle near his home in southern Abujmarh in Chhattisgarh’s Narayanpur. “I went to the river to fetch some water. While I was filling my container, I suddenly saw a large group of security forces,” the child told Newslaundry on the phone. “Suddenly, they started firing at me.”Terrified, Chaitram fled deeper into the jungle.
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Dec 14, 2024 |
newslaundry.com | Prateek Goyal
In a raid on the house of Madhya Pradesh businessman Manoj Parmar and his wife Neha, who died by suicide on December 13, the Enforcement Directorate officials turned off the cameras, assaulted Parmar, locked his family in a room, and seized Rs 10 lakh and 70 grams of gold without documenting it in the panchnama, says their alleged suicide note. The five-page printed note, seen by Newslaundry, claimed that officials told Parmar the raid was a result of their “campaigning for the Congress”.
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Dec 6, 2024 |
newslaundry.com | Prateek Goyal
Three and a half years have passed since Tasleem Banjara lay on the ground in Indore, weeping as a group of men assaulted him. Tasleem, a bangle seller, was accused of practising “love jihad” in a “Hindu area”. When he complained about being assaulted, he was swiftly booked in an FIR for sexually harassing a minor Hindu girl. The state’s home minister declared Tasleem had been “posing as a Hindu”, that he had “two Aadhaar cards” as part of this conspiracy.
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