Journalist Mahesh Langa Booked Again by Gujarat Police for Possessing Official Documents; ‘Unacceptable’ Says ‘The Hindu’ Editor

New Delhi: Senior journalist Mahesh Langa, in judicial custody in a GST evasion case, has been booked again by Gujarat police over the alleged possession of confidential government documents.>
Langa is senior assistant editor with The Hindu. The Ahmedabad crime branch arrested him on October 10 in connection with allegations that he was part of a nexus of companies that evaded the Goods and Services Tax. However, as has been reported before, he is not named in the FIR. Langa’s lawyer Vedanta Rajguru has also said that his client was neither a director nor a promoter of the DA Enterprise company, which has been named in the FIR in the case.>
This time, Indian Express has reported quoting Gandhinagar superintendent of police Ravi Teja Vasamsetty, Langa has been booked on charges of possession of documents related to the Gujarat Maritime Board.>
The SP did not respond to the Express’s queries on the sections under which Langa had been booked in the fresh FIR, saying only that the…