A senior journalist from Uttar Pradesh was on Thursday brutally beaten by supporters of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) in Mumbai, a day after a young man from the state died after being thrashed in a suburban train, Indo-Asian News Service has reported.
Some details from the IANS report: [Link]
Dinanath Tiwari, 45, who works for the Nirbhay Pathik tabloid, had gone to Kurar village in the eastern suburb of Malad just after midnight to report on MNS workers abusing and attacking a settlement of people from north India.
When they saw him taking photographs, about 15 MNS activists, including the area's Municipal Corporator Vanita Ghag, assaulted Tiwari, an eyewitness said. Tiwari was rushed to the Bhagwati Hospital with injuries to the ear and some fractures. Doctors described his condition as 'stable.'
Tiwari, who belongs to Jaunpur and has worked for Mumbai's first Hindi evening paper for 10 years, was dragged by MNS activists inside the police outpost and beaten up, said the newspaper editor A K Mishra. The police denied the allegation.
