Delhi violence: Television journalists attacked in northeast Delhi, one serious

New Delhi: New Delhi: A journalist was reportedly shot at and hospitalised during the violence over the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in northeast Delhi on Tuesday. Several other journalists, including three reporters and a cameraperson of a news channel, were assaulted by mobs.

Three journalists from The Times of India were surrounded by a mob and heckled. One of them sustained a leg injury, while another was threatened with violence and asked to prove he was uncircumcised.

Journalists from other publications were also attacked. This included either snatching their phones and deleting the photographs and videos they took of the site of violence.


A woman journalist said she was surrounded by a mob and her phone was snatched at a market in Maujpur, as rioters suspected her to be sent by Muslims. “I was speaking to some people who had gathered at Maujpur Chowk and then I went to the nearby market to click pictures of vandalised shops. Suddenly, I was surrounded by a mob, heckled and forced to hand over my phones. They reformatted my phones and I lost all my data,” she said. Her phone was returned after a police official intervened.

One of the local women was following this woman reporter, who finally got her phones back after a police official intervened.

“Don’t take out your phone or notepad. If you want to click photographs do it slyly. If you do it in front of them, they will turn aggressive," fellow reporters advised this correspondent.

This was probably a reason why television reporters faced a hard time on the ground. Several TV journalists were either threatened or attacked. But amid the mayhem, this correspondent was lucky and was helped by locals in hiding during the chase by the police to disperse the crowd and in finding a route to out of the area.