Guwahati : A journalist of a Guwahati -based satellite channel has filed a complaint with the police, accusing a retired Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of threatening him and his family over a recent news broadcast.

The scribe, Rana Deka, in his complaint to the senior superintendent of police of Bajali on Friday, claimed that the retired IAS officer Hitesh Dev Sarma abused him over the phone over a news item regarding the situation outside Baksa jail.

According to Hindustan Times , an FIR was registered against Sarma under sections 351(2) (criminal intimidation and death threat), 352 (intentional insult with the intent to provoke breach of peace), and 296 (obscene acts in public places) of the BNS at Pathshala police station.

Sarma, who retired as the state coordinato

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