Caravan Reporters Allege Assault And Sexual Harassment In Northeast Delhi
Three journalists
from The Caravan magazine say they were physically
assaulted by a mob in Subhash Mohalla in northeast-Delhi on Tuesday
afternoon. At 11:52 pm on
Tuesday, Hartosh Singh Bal, political editor of The Caravan, tweeted that despite two detailed complaints on
assault and sexual harassment by The Caravan reporters, no FIR
was registered. On Wednesday morning,
Bal told HuffPost India that the Delhi Police had not informed
them of an FIR in the matter.
A senior police
official in northeast Delhi, Ved Prakash Surya, told The Indian Express, “They had gone to report on
a story and people in the area got annoyed. Police safely evacuated the three.
We got reports they were manhandled but nobody has suffered any major injuries.
We will do an inquiry before filing an FIR.” Vinod Jose, Executive
Editor of The Caravan, told HuffPost India that
the reporters who were targeted on Tuesday have been contributing to the
publication’s coverage of the Delhi Riots. “They were told to go
back and stop reporting from there,” Jose said. “Caravan has been consistently
at it in terms of reporting on the Delhi Riots and the targeted violence. The
stories were revealing names including one or two parliamentarians and police
officers.”
A Twitter thread, put out by the New Delhi-based magazine at 12:01 am
on Wednesday, said a mob “physically assaulted its staffers, threatened to kill
them, and used communal slurs,” and “one among the mob, dressed in a saffron
kurta, claimed he was the ‘BJP general secretary. ’” Two reporters were
identified as Prabhjit Singh and Shahid Tantray. In his complaint to
the Delhi Police, Prabhjit Singh, wrote that were he not present, “the mob led
by that saffron-clad man would have lynched Shahid for his Muslim
identity.” The woman reporter was
sexually harassed, The Caravan said....
https://www.huffingtonpost.in/entry/caravan-reporters-mob-attack-northeast-delhi_in_5f3375b0c5b64cc99fdfc8c9
