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Editors Guild concerned at 'draconian' Rajasthan ordinance

The state government has said it plans to make the ordinance, promulgated last month, into an Act

Vasundhara Raje
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BS Reporter New Delhi
The Editors Guild of India on Sunday expressed concern at the Rajasthan government’s move to make the Criminal Laws (Rajasthan Amendment) Ordinance 2017 into law. 

The state government has said it plans to make the ordinance, promulgated last month, into an Act. In a release, the Guild said while the ordinance was promulgated ostensibly “to protect the judiciary and the bureaucracy against false FIRs”, “in reality it is a pernicious instrument to harass the media, hide wrongful acts by government servants and drastically curb the freedom of the press guaranteed by the Constitution of India”. 

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