Three journalists from ‘The Caravan’ magazine were attacked by a mob in Northeast Delhi on Tuesday, 11 August, while reporting on a story related to the pogroms that broke out in North East Delhi in February.
Journalists Shahid Tantray, Prabhjit Singh and another female journalist, who wished to remain anonymous, were in Northeast Delhi’s Bhajanpura, one of the worst-hit areas during the communal riots, to report a story related to the violence when they were allegedly surrounded by a mob and physically assaulted. The Caravan has been exposing many stories of communal violence and confessions of rioters in North East Delhi riots.
Tantray later told media: “We had gone to the area to report on a story related to the Delhi riots. We were taking some photographs of the area when a saffron-clad man approached us and asked us to stop clicking photos and hand over the memory card.”
“He kept forcing us but when we refused to hand over our cameras, he made some calls and soon a huge mob surrounded us and started accosting us. The mob even physically assaulted me and my colleague,” added Tantray.
