India, June 29 -- When a 'child trafficking' case was filed in July 2018 against a Missionaries of Charity (MC) home in Ranchi, with a nun and two others arrested, it made international headlines while Indian media feasted on it with primetime discussions and banner headlines.

But when the trial court in Ranchi acquitted all three on June 18, including the MC nun, Concelia, in her 70s, not even the Jharkhand media reported it, let alone the national media, which dutifully follows the dictates of the Modi government.

Upright journalists were aghast at the coordinated national blackout of such sensational news in a country that claims to be democratic and has the motto 'Satyameva Jayate.' Unfortunately, when the truth came out, exposing ...