India is second most dangerous country for the journalists and media persons. A recent survey of the International News Safety Institute has revealed that around six journalists and support staff were killed in India from January to June 2013. The recent gangrape of a 23-year-old female photojournalist in Mumbai has raised a very important question regarding the safety of journalists particularly women journalists in the country. Indeed, rape incidents are a big question mark over the state machinery and law and order situations in important cities like the state capital of Maharashtra. Indeed, the world today is at a risk with the Fourth estate of most of the countries often getting targeted by evil hands. It is high time for the state and our country to wake up from the deep slumber and act tough, so that their actions might serve a deterrent to such heinous crimes.
Mohd. Zeyaullah Khan
Nagpur, MS