This week, host Shivnarayan Rajpurohit is joined by Newslaundry’s Avdhesh Kumar and Sumedha Mittal.

Avdhesh talks about his report on ‘half encounters’, or what the Uttar Pradesh Police call “Operation Langda”, which is a practice where police shoot suspects in the leg to capture them alive. 

“Hemant, a young DJ operator from Mathura, was wrongfully picked up by UP police and shot in the leg,” says Avdhesh, who elaborated on the details of the fake encounter. He says 9,467 suspects were shot in the leg by UP police in such operations since 2017. 

Sumedha then discusses her report, which estimates that the Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir spent around Rs 70 crore on print ads over two-and-a-half years, with around Rs 12 crore cornered by just five newspapers. “The top three dailies that received the most ad money had overwhelmingly pro-LG Manoj Sinha and pro-Modi coverage,” she says.   

Avdhesh also talks about his coverage of the recent protests by SSC aspirants over alleged irregularities in the exam.

Timecodes

00:00:00 - Introduction

00:01:10 - Half Encounter Story 

00:16:21 - Kashmir Newspaper Ads 

00:26:11 - SSC protests 

00:31:08 - Half Encounter

00:32:30 - Recommendations 

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Sumedha 

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Produced and edited by Saif Ali Ekram, recorded by Anil Kumar.