Dantewada: On Saturday, he is the fourth Bastar-based journalist to be arrested in the last six months. Mr. Jaiswal was arrested in a suit which was registered past year in which he was charged with “entering the examination hall, trespassing, obstructing public servant in discharge of public function.”

Kamlochan Kashyap (Dantewada Superintendent of Police)regarding arrest said, “Mr. Deepak Jaiswal is not a journalist. We asked the publicity wing of the government about him and they have given us in writing that he was not registered with them as a journalist. He runs a hotel business here. He has been arrested in a case in which Prabhat Singh is a co-accused. He was a close friend of Prabhat Singh. We produced Deepak Jaiswal in court and he has been sent on four days of judicial remand.”-Hindu

Bappi Roy(organization’s president) said, “Deepak Jaiswal has been a full-time journalist for the past two years and I can personally testify for that. We have decided that from now on, no coverage will be given to the police or the Maoists by reporters based in Dantewada. Why should we report about them if they do not even consider us journalists? We will speak to our counterparts in neighbouring Bijapur, Sukma and Bastar district and ask them to join us in boycotting the police and the Maoists,”