Mayawati attacks

IN Media Watch Briefs | 11/09/2009

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has come under fire from scribes and the opposition for slapping the Dalit Act on reporters of a TV channel IBN 7 for a news report on how a starving Dalit sold off his wife in poverty-hit Bundelkhand. Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav has sprung to the channel's support. (IANS)