The five journalists who were booked are Sushil Pandit, Udit Goel, Raman Thakur, who are from Gautam Budh Nagar, Chandan Rai from Sahibabad and Nitish Pandey from Lucknow.
The Uttar Pradesh administration for all this while has been quite stringent, forbidding all religious events including namaz, on roads in various parts of the state.
Abdullah Azam Khan was detained yesterday too for obstructing the police from carrying out raids in the Mohammad Ali Jauhar University, whose chancellor is his father Azam Khan.
Chief Justice of India, Ranjan Gogoi has sought full information on the investigations both in the rape case as well as on the accident that took place on Sunday.