singh was expelled from the bjp in 2019 after calling its top leadership thugs. >> (speaking hindi):ents show the chief minister's office passed jaya's allegations to the police, but no action was taken. meanwhile, sengar telephoned jaya's uncle to pressureer to stay silent. i've been given a recording of one of these calls, later used in evidence. (both speaking hindi) >> navai: but jaya didn't drop the accusation. in april 2018, jaya's father, surendra, was attacked by a group of men he said were led by sengar's brother atul singh. a journalist filmed surendra afterwards, inside the police station. >> (speaking hindi): >> man (speaking hindi): >> surendra: >> navai: instead of helping surendra, local poce officers arrested him, claiming he owned an illegal weapon. phone records show that sengar spoke to the officers ten times ring this period. surendra suffered internal injuries and would later die. ♪ ♪ after the attack, jaya, her mother, and sister went to the chief minister's residence. >> (speaking hindi): >> navai: jaya doused herself in kerosene. >> the girl tried to burn hers

modi's bjp won by a landslide.lls for an investigation by the opposition are growing. >> we demand that there should be an investigation. the truth will come out and the lies will be exposed. people should know the truth. >> although 40 journalists in india were listed as potential targets, one of them told "france 24" it demonstrates how freedom of the press in india has changed under modi. >> to be honest, when i heard thisit did not come as a surise because over the last few years, things have changed a lot in india where journalism is concerned. the last few years, we have all been told anyone who is not -- who ask questions of the government are told to be careful. we've all been under surveillance. but we did not know it wod be this extensive, and this intrusive. >> israel based nso claims it only deals with vetted government agencies. new delhi has declined to say if it purchased its pegasus software, claiming instead the revelation is an international plot to defame india. >> two days before the olympics --

this is a parliamentarian from the ruling bjp telling a crowd that consuming cow urine has helped hera billionaire yoga guru with close links to the government. he's been passing off herbs, dung and urine as wonder drugs for treatment of the coronavirus. when he dismissed modern medicine as a "stupid science" recently... heated discussion. ..he was asked to keep quiet by the general secretary of india's premier medical association on a live tv debate. doctors even observed a black day to protest against his remark, urging for his arrest. the government itself has come under fire for often promoting and funding questionable therapies not backed up by adequate evidence to cure covid, complicating an already toughjob that medical doctors are doing. silence. india's science ministry, for instance, is funding trials of ancient hymns in treating the virus on 20 patients. and a body, the rashtriya kamdhenu aayog, set up under india's ministry for animal husbandry, with a corpus of over $60 million for the conservation of cows, has claimed that 800 covid patients with mild and moderate sympto

they objected to twitter, for example, putting a manipulated media tag on the bjp spokespersons becauseected to that. but they demanded that twitter block the posts, posts of many who covered, say, the farmers�* agitation. so it's not even—handed and nobody trusts this government or any government, for that matter, to be even—handed in the enforcement, in the implementation of these rules, of this regulation. that's the problem. yes, i get the message you're very wary of the kinds of legislation and new regulation that the modi government is pushing forward. ijust want to end, if i may, by asking you to reflect on what we've learned from covid. india has been so very badly affected by the covid pandemic. your death toll has now risen beyond 400,000 — and that's the official toll, the unofficial one, i think, is way higher than that. what do you think covid has told us about the dangers of misinformation and fake news and the spreading of so—called fact, which is anything but? what have we learned from india? we don't know enough about how disinformation affected people's actions or resp