Summary:
A team of policemen led by SHO Rakesh Kumar and a contingent of local journalists was at the spot covering the derailment story when an argument broke out.
SHO Kumar attacked Amit Sharma in one of the several videos of the incident that has gone viral on social media.
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MEERUT: In yet another case of police brutality on journalists , a mediaperson with a local news group, was allegedly assaulted by Shamli GRP SHO and his aides on Tuesday evening.The incident happened after two wagons of a goods train derailed near Dhimanpur in Shamli at around 9pm on Tuesday.
A team of policemen led by SHO Rakesh Kumar and a contingent of local journalists was at the spot covering the derailment story when an argument broke out.
SHO Kumar attacked Amit Sharma in one of the several videos of the incident that has gone viral on social media.
#WATCH Shamli: GRP personnel thrash a journalist who was covering the goods train derailment near Dhimanpura tonight.
He says, "They were in plain clothes.
One hit my camera&it fell down.
When I picked it up they hit&abused me.
I was locked up, stripped&they urinated in my mouth" pic.twitter.com/nS4hiyFF1G
— ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) June 11, 2019
The News 24 journalist, locked up in the GRP station, can be heard narrating the ordeal.