The Press Council of India (PCI) took suo motu cognisance of the arrest of a journalist by the Cyberabad police from the University of Hyderabad (UoH), in January this year.
Kunal Shankar, the Andhra Pradesh and Telangana correspondent for Frontline, was picked up on the occasion of Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula’s death anniversary.
The journalist had gone to cover the protest that was organised by students of the varsity, when he was accused of trespassing by university authorities.