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Who is Samriddhi Sakunia? The journalist was detained in Assam after a case was filed against her by the Tripura police. Reason? She has been accused of spreading communal disharmony after they reported about the vandalism at mosque in the state.
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Who is Samriddhi Sakunia
- According to the police, her reportage has stoked tensions in the region and as far as Maharashtra's Amravati. This led to her detention.
- Her Instagram handle is samriddhi_sakunia_. She has 11.6K followers. Her Instagram bio reads, "पत्रकार/Journalist. Bylines: @IndianExpress @TheLeaflet_in @thecitizen.in @tcnpix @newsclick.in"
- She hails from Pune.
- She is an alumna of Indira School of Mass Communication, as per her Linkedin Profile.
- "The police arrived yesterday at the hotel around 10:30 at night and served the FIR copy in the morning 5:30am. We were supposed to leave for the capital Agartala but have been not allowed to move despite full cooperation. There are around 16-17 police deployed outside our hotel.", she wrote on Twitter.
- "I will be putting out a statement soon iterating all the intimidation I had to face while covering the #Tripura story soon. Meanwhile, we are seeking legal remedy. Ps. We aren't allowed to move outside from our hotel.", read her next tweet.
- She also shared the copy of FIR on Twitter.
FIR🚨 in #Tripura@Jha_Swarnaa and I, the correspondent at @hwnewsnetwork have been booked under 3 sections of IPC at the Fatikroy police station, Tripura.
— Samriddhi K Sakunia (@Samriddhi0809) November 14, 2021
VHP filed complaint against me and @Jha_Swarnaa FIR has been filed under the section: 120(B), 153(A)/ 504.
Copy of FIR pic.twitter.com/a8XGC2Wjc5
- Her most recent tweet was the announcement that she has been detained. "We have been detained at the Nilambazar police station, Karimganj, Assam. We were informed by the officer in-charge of Nilambazar PS that SP of Gomti District gave the orders for our detention", it read.
- Along with Samriddhi Sakunia, Swarna Jha is the other journalist who has been detained. Also read who is Srishti Jatav, Dalit journalist briefly arrested for covering Dhobi Ghat slum demolition?
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