1 January 2020 12:01 am
Two Tamil Nadu journalists have been booked for interviewing Sri Lankan refugees and writing a news story on their perspective on the CAA-NRC issue, India Today reported.
The FIR claims the duo entered a refugee camp and “instigated the refugees to conduct a revolution against CAA”.They’ve been booked under non-bailable charges, and the police are trying to track them down.
In Tamil Nadu, the issue of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees is part of the ongoing debate on the Citizenship Amendment Act -- the law only covers illegal immigrants (belonging to six non-Muslim minority religious groups) from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.
Several opposition parties demand that Sri Lankan Tamils be included in the scope of the legislation.