Attacks – Journalists

A Guwahati-based journalist has alleged that the police snatched his camera and deleted its memory hours after the Nagaon deputy commissioner allegedly assaulted him inside his office for asking questions – about the delay in processing documents for a loan waiver and the lack of access to a public toilet.

A video on social media showed Dipankar Medhi, chief reporter at NB News, being pushed away and escorted by the police from the Office of District Commissioner. Medhi claimed he was detained for around eight hours at the Nagaon Sadar police station after Nagaon Deputy Commissioner Narendra Kumar Shah told the police to take him away from his office. There was no FIR against Medhi over the incident on Friday.