On the afternoon of 11 August, a mob assaulted three journalists working with The Caravan, in Subhash Mohalla, in northeast Delhi’s North Ghonda neighbourhood. The journalists were reporting on a story concerning a Delhi violence complainant.
Two of the reporters were identified as Prabhjit Singh and Shahid Tantray. Along with a woman colleague, they were reporting on communal tensions that broke out in the area on the night of August 5, following the foundation-laying ceremony of the Ram temple in Ayodhya.
The Network of Women in Media (NWMI) — an association that seeks to provide a forum for women in media — put out a statement Wednesday condemning an alleged attack on three journalists in Northeast Delhi the day before.
“The physical attack on all the three journalists and the sexual harassment and of the woman journalist, while reporting, are serious assaults and represent a setback to press freedom,” the statement said.
Tantray told Newslaundry that initially only five to eight people had approached him and his colleagues in Subhash Mohalla. It swelled to a larger group when one of the men, dressed in a saffron kurta and with a fractured arm, contacted others and asked them to show up.
Press club of India demands FIR, judicial probe set up by Delhi government. “Delhi authority need to stop hesitating and launch a formal investigation into the attack on three journalist” with the Caravan magazine said CPJ Asia’s Steven B Butler. “police must and sure journalist are not targeted for their work”.
