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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | 'Outright Criminality' -Editors' Guild of India

'Outright Criminality' -Editors' Guild of India

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published Published on Nov 21, 2013   modified Modified on Nov 21, 2013
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'There ought not to be any attempt to cover up or play down this extremely serious incident. Self-proclaimed atonement and recusal for a period are hardly the remedies'

The full text of the statement issued by the Editors' Guild of India

The allegations of grave sexual assault made by a journalist of Tehelka against the magazine's editor Tarun Tejpal, are on the face of it shocking and shameful.

Such incidents anywhere are condemnable in the strongest terms but the Guild is particularly saddened that they should engulf a media organisation.

It is emphatically the philosophy of the Guild that the media that is in the business of holding public persons accountable should itself be held to the highest standards of conduct and decency.

The conduct that has been alleged would constitute grave sexual assault at the very least taking advantage of the authority and power of the perpetrator within the media organisation.

It also brings out vulnerability of young women journalists who need to be protected and free to pursue their careers without the fear of being subjected to such assaults.

There ought not to be any attempt to cover up or play down this extremely serious incident.

Self-proclaimed atonement and recusal for a period are hardly the remedies for what the allegations show to be outright criminality.

The full force of the law must be brought into its investigation and prosecution. Due regard must be paid to the sensitivity and privacy of the victim who has already been put to grievous suffering.

 


Outlook, 21 November, 2013, http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?288614


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