Kathmandu. The Secretariat of Prime Minister Balendra Shah (Balen) has said that it has no involvement in the incident of the arrest of journalists and the police entering the media office.
Prime Minister’s press and research expert Deepa Dahal has said that the Prime Minister, his secretariat and the office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers have no information about the events that took place on Friday.
“Whatever events have developed today, honorable Prime Minister, the Secretariat and the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers have no involvement in those events. We have no information about this,” said Dahal.
The police are entering the offices of various media outlets and arresting the journalists. Journalist Bishwamani Subedi working in Nepal Press, Dhiraj Basnet of DN Khabar and Shobraj Baral of Motivate News were arrested on Friday.
Similarly, plainclothes police have reached the newspaper’s office to arrest Navraj Mainali, a journalist working in Naya Patrika.