The UPA's messy affair with the media

Last Thursday, the Director-General of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) called an emergency press conference at 8.30 p.m. to request the media not to publish the details of those arrested in the case relating to the bomb explosions earlier this month at the Delhi High Court, as it would alert the key culprits. A reasonable request, one might argue, but for one small detail: the story was already public as it had been running all day on TV channels, and it was too late to withdraw it from the early editions of the newspapers.

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