AdvertisingLeh District Election Officer and Deputy Commissioner Avny Lavasa, who ordered the inquiry, said: “On Tuesday, we approached the district court through police, seeking directions for registration of an FIR in the matter. Lavasa said after the allegations of bribing media persons were found prima facie correct, “we wrote to police to file either an FIR or a complaint”. The Leh Press Club had lodged separate complaints with the District Election Officer and SHO, Leh, accusing senior BJP leaders including its J&K president Ravinder Raina and MLC Vikram Randhawa of bribing media persons at a press conference on May 2 to shift the poll narrative in their favour. “We had printed nearly 2,000 cards to invite prominent people to her public rally and some of these were delivered to media persons also,’’ he said. In video clips that began doing the rounds on social media, some BJP leaders can be seen distributing envelopes to four-five media persons, including two women journalists.

Source: Indian Express May 07, 2019 23:26 UTC