On Tuesday, three journalists from Caravan were assaulted in North East Delhi’s Subhash Mohalla neighbourhood as they were reporting on c...
On Tuesday, three journalists from Caravan were assaulted in North East Delhi’s Subhash Mohalla neighbourhood as they were reporting on communal tension following the inauguration of the Ram temple in Ayodhya on August 5, the magazine said. After the ceremony, Caravan reported that a group of Hindu residents chanted communal slogans and, as part of this effort at intimidation, tied Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh flags on a gate leading to the Muslim-dominated section of the neighbourhood.
Later, as Muslim women tried to register a first information report about the incident, they allege that they were beaten, sexually assaulted and had their clothes torn by the police personnel at the Bhajanpura Police Station.
According an article in the magazine, Caravan reporters Prabhjit Singh, Shahid Tantray and a woman colleague, who has chosen to be unidentified, were following up on the story on Tuesday. As they were taking photos of the saffron flags strung up around the neighbourhood, the journalists were accosted by a crowd. When the crowd learnt that one of the reporters was Muslim, they began to beat him.
In his complaint, Singh said that had he not been present, “the mob led by that saffron-clad man would have lynched Shahid for his Muslim identity”.
In this melee, as the woman journalist tried to escape, she...
