Whistleblowing on Facebook

IN Media Watch Briefs | 08/05/2017

Is this incident of a Chhattisgarh jail officer using Facebook for whistleblowing the first of its kind? This Hindu report says that a deputy jailer, posted at the central jail in Chhattisgarh's capital city of Raipur, was suspended on Saturday for a Facebook post alleging torture of young tribal girls while in police custody. She describes the torture.The response of the police is to say that she will be chargesheeted and tried for violation of service rules. Other newspapers say similar things. Did any journalist ask the cops whether they will also probe the veracity the allegations?

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