Attack on journalist: Scribes PROTEST OUTSIDE SSP, DM Office

GHAZIABAD: Scores of journalists on Monday staged a sitin protest outside the offices of Senior Superintendent of Police and District Magistrate in Ghaziabad. They condemned the attack on a senior TV journalist in Kavinagar area of Ghaziabad on Sunday evening. At around 2 pm, over a hundred journalists from various TV channels and newspapers gathered outside Ghaziabad SSP office and raised slogans against the administration and the police.

The protesters demanded immediate suspension of the Kavinagar's Station House officer Samarjit Singh. The agitating journalists held Singh responsible for not taking any action against some persons who were named in a written complaint given by Chaudhary a month ago, after he feared a threat to his life from them.

"We demand senior police officials to suspend the inspector for being imprudent in the case. If he had taken necessary actions at the right time, our colleague would not have been battling for his life at the hospital," a journalist present in the protest said.

The journalists also warned the police of a much intensified protest if strict and immediate actions are not taken in the case. Meanwhile, journalist Anuj Chaudhary's condition is stated to be critical.

“Next five to six days will be crucial for Chaudhary as the risk of infection spreading in the body is high during this period. He has been kept on ventilator in the Intensive Care Unit at Yashoda Hospital. He is under the supervision of a team of specialized doctors,” said a senior doctor at Yashoda Hospital in Ghaziabad.

However police is still clueless and no arrest has been made, so far. Anuj's family members have named nine persons in the police compliant including a former counsillor Shekhar Tyagi.

Meanwhile, Ghaziabad MP and Union minister of state for external affairs General V K Singh reached Yashoda hospital in Ghaziabad on Monday and enquired about Chaudhary's condition.

Anuj Chaudhary, who works with the Sahara Samay Hindi news channel, was on his way to home, when fourfive unidentified persons in a car and a two-wheeler opened fire on him near the entrance of his house.

Chaudhary suffered three bullet injuries in the incident out of which one bullet hit him in the abdomen and two hit him in the right arm. He was immediately rushed to the Yashoda Hospital and has been kept in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).