“Koi media nahi hai”: Journalists dragged, detained, demeaned in Delhi in dark day for world’s largest democracy

In arguably the most brutal assault on press freedom in India since the Emergency, several journalists were stopped from doing their work and detained in Delhi on October 10 in a display of police excess that bordered on madness. Journalists were dragged by their clothes, pushed and manhandled, their phones snatched, and pressured to delete
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- India
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- Crime & safety
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- Delhi
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- Sunday, 11 October 2026, 7:16 am IST
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