Atanu Bhuyan

Atanu Bhuyan
Born (1963-10-12) 12 October 1963
Tezpur, Assam
Occupation Journalist

Atanu Bhuyan (born in Tezpur, Assam, India) is a journalist based in Assam, northeast India. He is known as the most controversial and hated journalist of Assam for his derogatory remarks on women via Twitter and Facebook.[1][2][3] There was a massive campaign on Twitter demanding his resignation,[4] and finally he resigned his position as editor-in-chief of News Live.[5] After his resignation he was also removed from the Board of the Directors of NewsLive.[6]

Arrest

On 15 May 1998, Bhuyan was arrested by Assam police personnel[7] when he was working as executive editor of the Guwahati-based daily Ajir Batori for making fake news. Editor Dhiren Chakravarty and publisher Rajendra Prasad Bora were also arrested. They were charged with defaming Parliament after the publication, two months previously, of an article critical of Parliament.

Facebook controversy

Representatives from the Tai-Ahom community in Assam alleged that Bhuyan had posted derogatory comments against an Ahom woman on his Facebook wall in late 2011. Bhuyan claimed that someone had hacked into his Facebook account.[8]

Guwahati molestation case

Bhuyan, the editor-in-chief of the channel which videographed the molestation of a girl outside a pub in Guwahati, resigned on 17 July 2012 after expressing doubts over an impartial enquiry into the allegations that a journalist had instigated the incident. Bhuyan was suspended from the Board of Directors of the NewsLive.[5]

Sexual harassment case

In January 2016, a Delhi-based female journalist working for a Guwahati news channel, Assam Talks, filed a complaint of sexual assault and sexual abuse against two senior journalists. She alleged that her editor-in-chief, Atanu Bhuyan, had tried to force her to sleep with an Assam political leader when he visited a Delhi hotel. The complainant also named another Delhi-based journalist of a Guwahati-based television channel, Luit Neil Don, in her FIR lodged with Rajouri Garden Police Station. A team of Delhi police searched for Bhuyan. He and Don were believed to be on the run.

References

  1. ↑ TI Trade (2012-07-19). "The Assam Tribune Online". Assamtribune.com. Archived from the original on 2014-04-29. Retrieved 2012-12-29.
  2. ↑ "Assam molestation: Channel editor says he'll quit - Yahoo! News India". In.news.yahoo.com. 2012-07-17. Retrieved 2012-12-29.
  3. ↑ "The Sentinel". Sentinelassam.com. Retrieved 2012-12-29.
  4. ↑ "#ResignAtanuBhuyan campaign in Twitter by Tweeple after Guwahati Molestation Incident". Northeastblog.in. 2012-07-16. Retrieved 2012-12-29.
  5. 1 2 "Guwahati molestation case: Editor of TV channel that filmed the incident resigns". The Times of India. 2012-07-17. Retrieved 2012-12-29.
  6. ↑ "Guwahati molestation: Gogoi asks new channel to clarify remarks - India - DNA". Dnaindia.com. 2012-07-19. Retrieved 2012-12-29.
  7. ↑ https://www.hrw.org/reports/pdfs/i/indonesa/indones2934.pdf
  8. ↑ "Facebook remark sparks tension". Hindustan Times. 2011-07-29. Archived from the original on 2012-05-22. Retrieved 2012-12-29.
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