Centre not to take action against two scribes

New Delhi, Sept 23 (PTI) The Centre has decided to drop
action against two journalists of a national daily for filing
a "wrong" report about Chinese firing at Indian border guards
in Sikkim.

The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) had sent a
complaint to the Delhi police but top officials decided to
"let it go", Home Ministry sources said.

Earlier, officials had said that the police will register
FIR within a week against the scribes -- one based in Guwahati
and the other in Kolkata.

In its complaint to the Delhi Police, the ITBP had said
that the journalists had filed a wrong story that two of its
jawans were injured when the Chinese Army fired at them from
across the border in Kerang in northern Sikkim earlier this
month.

The news report, carried on September 15, was denied by
the Ministry of External Affairs which termed it as
"factually incorrect".

The ITBP also said said that no such incident had taken
place anywhere along the Sino-Indian border where its
personnel are deployed.

India has been seeking to play down the recent reports
of Chinese incursions while maintaining that the situation was
not alarming. PTI