{"id":122160,"date":"2018-01-08T19:23:14","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T13:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=122160"},"modified":"2018-01-08T19:23:14","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T13:53:14","slug":"committed-press-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/committed-press-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Committed to press freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After a police case was filed by the Aadhaar-issuing authority UIDAI against a newspaper reporter and others over a report that the Aadhaar database was vulnerable to misuse, Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today clarified that the action was not meant to suppress freedom of the press.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-122161 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Ravishankar-prasad1_2017061_600_855.jpg\" alt=\" Committed to press freedom\" width=\"538\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Ravishankar-prasad1_2017061_600_855.jpg 855w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Ravishankar-prasad1_2017061_600_855-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\" \/><br \/>\n&#8220;Govt. is fully committed to freedom of Press as well as to maintaining security &amp; sanctity of #Aadhaar for India&#8217;s development. FIR is against unknown.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve suggested @UIDAI to request Tribune &amp; it&#8217;s journalist to give all assistance to police in investigating real offenders,&#8221;\u00a0 Prasad tweeted. The Editor&#8217;s Guild of India has condemned the police case against the journalist, Rachna Khaira.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a police case was filed by the Aadhaar-issuing authority UIDAI against a newspaper reporter and others over a report that the Aadhaar database was vulnerable to misuse, Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today clarified that the action was not meant to suppress freedom of the press. &#8220;Govt. is fully committed to freedom of Press [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[21133,62690,19632,510,10667,62691,62604,43652],"class_list":["post-122160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-aadhaar","tag-committed-to-press-freedom","tag-fir","tag-india","tag-journalist","tag-law-minister-ravi-shankar-prasad","tag-rachna-khaira","tag-uidai"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/t7.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}