The Jharkhand Journalist On The Pegasus List

Rupesh Kumar Singh, a journalist from Jharkhand, was "furious" when he found his name on a list last week. Here's why...

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00:00I am a journalist, and I am not the only one, but three people have been included in the Pegasus list.

00:28After the report was published,

00:30to be honest, I was very angry.

00:32I was very angry.

00:33I had raised the question in every article of mine

01:00that why is the CRPF camp being set up in the jungles all the time?

01:05There was a sudden beep in the phone.

01:28So, I thought it must be the state police or the district police on the phone surveillance.

01:44They kept threatening me,

01:46that why do you write? Why do you write negative journalism?

01:49They said, negative doesn't mean against the government.

01:58They kept threatening me, that why do you write? Why do you write?

02:05They kept threatening me, that why do you write? Why do you write?