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As Uttar Pradesh's Kasganj still remains tense after communal clashes claimed one life on 26 January, it has now come to light that a journalist working for ABP News has allegedly been receiving death threats for the coverage of the violence.
ABP News editor Pankaj Jha took to Twitter to narrate how he has been receiving phone calls wherein people have been abusing him, issuing death threats and threatening to abduct his daughter.
The journalist posted the screenshots of these numbers on Twitter, as he said:
Jha also said that he has told the police about these numbers and messages.
According to a Newslaundry report, ABP News was one of the news channels that, with its comprehensive coverage, helped dispel various rumours regarding the Kasganj violence.
As many as 112 people have been arrested since communal clashes in Kasganj claimed one life.
Violence broke out in the Uttar Pradesh town where at least three shops, two buses and a car were torched following the cremation of 22-year-old Chandan Gupta who died in clashes on 26 January.
On Monday, Gupta’s kin refused the Rs 20 lakh compensation promised by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on 28 January. His relatives, instead, demanded that he should be given ‘shaheed’ (martyr) status.
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