Prashant Dayal

Prashant Dayal is an Indian journalist, who broke the story of Sohrabuddin encounter case in November 2006.[1] He currently reports as correspondents for multiple print media organizations, including The Times of India. He also publishes a column titled 'Jivti Varta'.[2]

Early life

He started working in a garage. When in college, he started driving an autorickshaw at night. In his journalism career, Dayal has switched jobs almost 14 times.[3]

Career

He admitted of cultivating a habit of drinking alcohol with police officers to bring out reports from them. He was later charged with sedition by Gujarat Police in 2008. The charges were later quashed in 2013.[4][5] His reporting eventually led to the arrest of Gujarat police Deputy Inspector General (Border Range) D G Vanzara, Rajkumar Pandian, superintendent of police with the Intelligence Bureau, and M N Dinesh Kumar (Rajasthan police) on the charge of murdering Sohrabuddin Sheikh and other fake encounter's.

gollark: Thanks to lazy evaluation, anything can be infinite!
gollark: *infinite lists
gollark: You could also implement it for, say, trees, though.
gollark: That's specifically for lists though.
gollark: In Haskell one way you can do it is with `iterate`, where you define a starting value and a way to iterate on that value, and you get an infinitely long list.

References
  1. "The journalist who cracked Gujarat fake encounter case". rediff.com. Retrieved 25 April 2007.
  2. "Prashant Dayal:The Times of India reporter". timesofindia.com. Retrieved 5 March 2014.
  3. "Lessons from the Gujarat Model". livemint.com. Retrieved 5 March 2014.
  4. "Police Commissioner files case against newspaper". thehindu.com. Retrieved 2 June 2008.
  5. "IFJ Welcomes Quashing of Sedition Charges in India's Gujarat State". ifj.org. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.