Journalist Assault Case: Four Persons Arrested in Srinagar

Srinagar, July 24: In a swift action, police on Sunday arrested four people in connection of thrashing a journalist in Central Kashmir’s Srinagar district.

In a handout the police said that yesterday night, Shabraiz Bashir son of late Bashir Ahmad Party resident of Hamdanya colony Bemina, correspondent with the News Now, lodged a written complaint to the effect that on 23/07/2022 he was thrashed by four unknown persons in Bemina Chowk who fled away from the spot in a white Swift vehicle.

The police spokesman further stated that the assault resulted in injuries to the applicant. In this regard Case FIR no 71/22 U/S 341,323 IPC was registered in Police station Bemina and investigation taken up. During the course of investigation efforts were made to trace out the accused and CCTV footage etc. was analysed, the investigation led to the arrest of 4 persons , identified as Iqbal Saleem son of Mohd Saleem resident of Hajjiabad Bemina, Mohd Qasim son of Manzoor Ahmed Dar resident of Ferdous colony Bemina, Imran Manzoor son of Manzoor Ahmed Badyri resident of Mansoor colony Bemina and Jahanger Ahmed Khan son of Farooq Ahmad Khan resident of Ferdous abad Batmaloo.

Prima facie the case seems to be of road-rage.
The investigation of the case is going on and further evidence is being collected.
Srinagar Police assures citizens that all such cases will be investigated with full professionalism, reads the statement.