Chhattisgarh: Female journalist threatened by Bajrang Dal for opposing a temple on the housing board land

Raipur: A female journalist was threatened on Sunday evening by eight people claiming to be from Bajrang Dal, a right-wing organisation.

Talking to CAAJ, electronic media journalist Mamta Lanjewar told that some people rang her doorbell at 5.00 pm and started threatening her of dire consequences for opposing the construction of a temple on the housing board land in Himalayan Hights Society, where she lives.

These men claimed that they belonged to Bajrang Dal and were sent by a resident named Satyabhama Chauhan and an ex-serviceman Sahu to convince her about the temple. After heated arguments, the journalist called up a few other journalist friends and later submitted a police complaint with nine other signatories who are residents of the same society.

Talking to CAAJ over phone the journalist explained the whole incident and has shared her complaint copy as well as some images. She said that she was being continously trolled in Whatsapp groups for a few days.

The copy of the complaint can be seen below:

The journalist has also shared a video of the incident with the CAAJ that she has shot from her mobile.

Comments

Fourteen Journalists assaulted while covering anti-CAA protests till date! Here is the list

Amidst the on-going nationwide protest against CAA-NRC several journalist were attacked, intimidated and harassed by the police when they were doing the ground reporting. Ironically most of them come from the minority Muslim community. It shows the bias against the certain community from the state machinery. Several other photo and video journalists were also harassed in these protests by the mobs and protesters. Here is the current list of the attacked journalists (11/12/19 - 21/12/19):

"Republic In Peril": Summary report of attacks on Journalists in Delhi post CAA

The Committee Against Assault on Journalists (CAAJ) releases a report titled "Republic In Peril" on recent cases of Assaults on Journalists in Delhi covering three months from December 2019 to February 2020. This report documents a total of 32 cases of various types of Assaults on Journalists covering socio-political developments in the capital city of India after the eruption of anti-CAA protests. The report outlines three phases of assault in Delhi. First in December, 2019 that started after anti-CAA protests erupted with centrestage being Jamia Millia Islamia University. A total of seven cases have been documented where Journalists who went to cover Jamia were assaulted physically. These assaulted journalists included mainstream news channels, agency, international media BBC and digital platforms. The assaulters included mob and police. This first phase lasted for five days from December 15 to December 20, 2019 although assaults continued nationwide for ...

Delhi Police raids on senior scribes in the National Capital, select detention and threats of UAPA

Journalists in the National Capital Territory of Delhi woke up Tuesday morning with a shocking news of multiple raids on senior scribes associated with the news portal Newsclick dot com by the Special Cell of Delhi Police. These simultaneous raids have been reported in connection with the ongoing investigation in the alleged foreign funding of Newsclick. Raided senior scribes include Urmilesh, a resident of Vasundhara, Ghaziabad who produces and anchors a show for the portal ; Abhisar Sharma, ex-NDTV and anchoring a show for Newsclick; Bhasha Singh, senior reporter; Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, senior columnist and writer who has previously been framed in a false case related to industrialist Adani when he was working with Economic and Political Weekly; Sohail Hashmi, a renowned cultural activist and heritage conservationist; with the chief of Newsclick Prabir Purkayastha, his wife Geeta Hariharan, Subodh Verma, Anindyo Chakraborty and others. Police also raided the house of Teesta Set...

Committee Against Assault on Journalists

Search This Blog