New Delhi, March 20 -- In an unprecedented development in the history of independent India's media, the premises of the country's prestigious news agency United News of India were forcibly vacated on Friday evening without any prior notice, with a heavy deployment of Delhi Police and paramilitary forces.
The news agency has been operating for several decades from its premises at 9 Rafi Marg, New Delhi.
Some government officials entered the premises along with about 300 personnel and officers of the Delhi Police and paramilitary forces, as well as some lawyers, and began pressuring employees to immediately vacate the newsroom and leave the premises.
They said the action was being taken under a court order, but they failed to show any writ...