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Police rebuttal or confession with omissions?
7/28/2018 12:03:45 AM
Early Times Report
Jammu, July 27: The Jammu and Kashmir Police have "rebutted" the with-picture news report by Early Times that "The subordinate staff in the Jammu and Kashmir Police has reportedly misled none other than Director General of Police (DGP) by getting an incomplete building inaugurated."
The statement titled "rebuttal" that has been released by the police force raises more questions than answer it has tried to give.
"This is in reference to news item which has been published in Early Times news paper that "INCOMPLETE BUILDING INAUGURATED BY TOP COP LOWER RUNG OFFICIALS MISLEAD DGP"," the police handout said.
"Today Police spokesmen denied a report and clarified that above said building is fully complete except back side wall which has been left for plastering the reason and same shall be taken up after the end of rainy season," the handout added.
When the police handout admits that the back side wall is yet to be plastered and that the same would be done after rainy season, the statement is enough to endorse that the work is incomplete and it would take around a month more to complete when the rainy season ends.
The Early Times report was supported by a relevant picture. A picture is worth a thousand words but for JKP, rebutting a fact looks like statement of confession.
How should building, whose construction is still not complete be defined? For ages, the simple and trusted word for something which is not complete is incomplete.
But the police spokesman looks allergic to logic.
And then, there's a word of advice in the "rebuttal" as it says "It is urged that media should publish any news only after thorough research and about the issues. The same will enhance the credibility of media and not lead to shoddy work which lowers the credibility of the paper carrying half baked stories."
To keep the police department informed that newspapers are not research institutions that we "publish any news only after thorough research and about the issues." We go by facts as clear as our picture showing the incomplete building.
And, let the police force be informed that story on incomplete building doesn't mean "half baked story." But yes we could call it half-baked inauguration by the DGP.
Before criticizing media for the sake of it, a nationalist media organization like ours which is inspired by iconic slogan "Na Khawunga Na Khane Dunga", we humbly request the police spokesman should concentrate on improving facts and logic given in the handouts.
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