Rae Bareli: Three journalists get notices for reports on ‘diverting’ oxygen

THE Rae Bareli district administration has issued notices to three local journalists, seeking information on the sources for a news article that were published and posted on social media.

The reports alleged that “20 metric tonnes” of medical oxygen were diverted from Rae Bareli to neighbouring Kanpur in the midst of a public health emergency in the district. The district administration claimed that the allegations made in the news reports were “baseless and false”.

The administration also sought information from two journalists — Shivam Kumar Trivedi and Anuj Awasthi — about reports related to the oxygen supply in Hindi dailies Daily News Activist and Kanwhizz Times, respectively.