{"id":313242,"date":"2019-06-12T08:22:49","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T08:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=313242"},"modified":"2019-06-12T08:22:49","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T08:22:49","slug":"up-journalist-thrashed-by-railway-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/up-journalist-thrashed-by-railway-cops\/","title":{"rendered":"UP Journalist thrashed by railway cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-313243 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/jounalist-beaten-up-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/jounalist-beaten-up-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/jounalist-beaten-up.jpg 515w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A journalist who was covering a train derailment near Dhimanpura on Tuesday night was beaten up on camera by a group of GRP personnel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">GRP personnel abused, kicked and thrashed Amit Sharma. They also allegedly snatched his camera.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sharma said, \u201cI was locked up, stripped and they urinated in my mouth.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the sources, many local journalists rushed to the police station on learning about the incident and put the video footage of cops beating up Amit Sharma on social media. The journalists also contacted senior officials at the police headquarters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The journalist was later released, said reports.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Station House Officer (SHO) Rakesh Kumar and GRP constable Sunil Kumar have been suspended and an investigation has been ordered into the incident.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">UP Police in a tweet said a strict punishment will be accorded to policemen for misbehaving with citizens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe have come across a video where a journalist has been beaten up &amp; put up in a lock up. DGP UP OP Singh has ordered for immediate suspension of SHO GRP Shamli Rakesh Kumar &amp; Const. Sanjay Pawar. Strict punishment shall be accorded to policemen misbehaving with citizens,\u201d UP police tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A journalist who was covering a train derailment near Dhimanpura on Tuesday night was beaten up on camera by a group of GRP personnel. GRP personnel abused, kicked and thrashed Amit Sharma. They also allegedly snatched his camera. Sharma said, \u201cI was locked up, stripped and they urinated in my mouth.\u201d According to the sources, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":313243,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2014,2015],"tags":[11484,3648,283],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313242"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313250,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313242\/revisions\/313250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/313243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}