After the Intelligence Bureau recommended Y-category security for Arnab Goswami, former Supreme Court judge Markandey Katju lashed out at him on social media.
The security recommended will need 20 bodyguards to be deployed day and night to Goswami, but who will pay their salaries if not the taxes of common people? This is what the former judge argued.
It will be the government, which really means the public, because these salaries come from the taxes we pay. So we will have to pay for Arnab’s security.
Stating that he receives a handsome salary already from his employer, Kajtu asks why the editor-in-chief of Times Now was not paying for his own security or getting a private agency rather than have the government to pay for his safety.
It really is worth asking why the government is paying for his security, instead of the media house that employs him.
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