On Tuesday 22 September 2020 I came to know about the torture of a minor boy and as my journalistic duties demand I visited the child and his family and tried to understand whatever had transpired. While I was talking to the child my collegue shot a video of the conversation, following which I erroneously posted it on a social networking site. The only intent behind posting the video was to bring out the truth, which I did my best to bring out. However, soon after I came to know that posting the video has been a serious error in judgement on my part for it hurt the sentiments of the family and also compromised the identity of the victim, which should have been kept confifential. I feel sorry for this poor choice of action and am putting forth an unconditional apology to each and every party concerned, most importantly the kid. I have also deleted the video from my social media wall. I urge everyone, who has shared the video, to delete it from their respective social media handles in the interest of protecting the child’s identity, delivery of justice.
Aasif Shafi
Multimedia Journalist And Filmmaker
