Journalist beaten up for writing on quarantined families

AHMEDNAGAR: A 35-year-old jouranlist was assaulted in Maharashtra’s Ahmednagar district for publishing a report about some families who had been home quarantined to prevent the spread of Covid-19, police said on Thursday.

Balasaheb Navgire was assaulted by a group of over 12 persons, most of them women, at Panegaon near Newase on Wednesday, said an official of Sonai police station. Navgire had written in a local newspaper about 17 families who had been quarantined for suspected exposure to the virus, he said.

The accused allegedly believed that due to the report their employers did not allow them to work and turned them away.