Anita Sharma Bisht

Born in Una, the border between the Kangra district and the Hamirpur district of Himachal Pradesh, Anita Sharma Bisht always viewed her life as favourable to work for the country. She graduated from Gargi University, Delhi and holds a degree in the Bachelor of Commerce. In the year 1993, she started her career on a local cable network. She then joined hands with Rajat Sharma A story from rags to riches. Padma Bhushan Rajat S >> Read More... , who started the Independent News service. She provided inciting stories to the show ‘Awaaz’ and later for ‘Aaj ki Bat’ which serves as a daily news program.

Her vision of life to suppress inhumanity and uplift truth and justice made her face challenging situations. She was known for her live reporting during the elections, terrorists attacks, and even during earthquakes. It is her passion and her love towards the country that made her work in all circumstances, and to still continue to work for the country. Not only did she reveal the truth for the nation, but also revealed the injustice done to our daily lives. She performed many sting operations, just to bring out the truth behind adulterated milk or medicines or in fact in blood banks or even school admissions.

She published these facts in the weekly program called ‘Sab Golmaal Hai’ through television, to make us all aware of exactly what is happening to the consumers and how they are being cheated, and to raise our voices against it. Her documentaries on the burning issues of the Widows of Vrindavan, the misuse of the Dowry Act under Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code, the partition of India-Pakistan and the Kashmir’s Pandits, has brought about a tremendous awareness amongst the citizens regarding what was happening around the country.

On June 22, the police of Noida filed a First Information report (FIR) that went viral on the media. The senior executives of the news channel (India TV), Anita Sharma Bisht and M.N.Prasad were charged with an FIR under Section 306 of the Indan Penal Code that is Abetment of Suicide, Section 504 of the Indian Penal Code, that is Intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace, and Section 511 of the Indan Penal Code which is Punishment for attempting to commit offences punishable with imprisonment for life or other imprisonment.

An employee named Tanu Sharma Tanu Sharma is an Indian news anchor and journalis >> Read More... alleged that she was persecuted and mentally abused during her period of work with the channel and was pushed to end her life; this was later proven to be false and a legal notice alleging the right to seek penalty of up to Rs.10 crores was put across. She feels that her greatest mission in life is to expose malpractice, corruption and injustice taking place in our country, and she has done her best to serve her views and passion.