{"id":342697,"date":"2023-03-26T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-26T19:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=342697"},"modified":"2023-03-26T21:55:33","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T03:25:33","slug":"indian-journalist-comes-under-attack-from-khalistan-supporters-protesting-outside-us-embassy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/indian-journalist-comes-under-attack-from-khalistan-supporters-protesting-outside-us-embassy\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian journalist comes under attack from Khalistan supporters protesting outside US Embassy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"533\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/journalist-comes-under-attack-from-Khalistan-supporters-protesting-outside-Indian-Embassy-in-Washington-1024x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-342698\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/03\/journalist-comes-under-attack-from-Khalistan-supporters-protesting-outside-Indian-Embassy-in-Washington-1024x533.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/03\/journalist-comes-under-attack-from-Khalistan-supporters-protesting-outside-Indian-Embassy-in-Washington-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/03\/journalist-comes-under-attack-from-Khalistan-supporters-protesting-outside-Indian-Embassy-in-Washington-768x400.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/03\/journalist-comes-under-attack-from-Khalistan-supporters-protesting-outside-Indian-Embassy-in-Washington-696x363.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/03\/journalist-comes-under-attack-from-Khalistan-supporters-protesting-outside-Indian-Embassy-in-Washington-1068x556.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/03\/journalist-comes-under-attack-from-Khalistan-supporters-protesting-outside-Indian-Embassy-in-Washington-806x420.jpg 806w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/03\/journalist-comes-under-attack-from-Khalistan-supporters-protesting-outside-Indian-Embassy-in-Washington.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A Indian journalist was verbally intimidated and physically assaulted by Khalistan supporters protesting outside the Indian Embassy here, drawing a strong reaction from the Indian mission which said such activities underscore the violent and anti-social tendencies of these separatists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The US correspondent of the Press Trust of India, Lalit K Jha, was covering the pro-Khalistan protest when he came under attack. But the timely intervention by the US Secret Service and the local police saved him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We have seen disturbing visuals of a senior Indian journalist from the Press Trust of India being abused, threatened &amp; assaulted physically while covering the so-called \u2018Khalistan protest\u2019 in Washington DC earlier today,&#8221; the Indian Embassy here said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Indian journalist was verbally intimidated and physically assaulted by Khalistan supporters protesting outside the Indian Embassy here, drawing a strong reaction from the Indian mission which said such activities underscore the violent and anti-social tendencies of these separatists. The US correspondent of the Press Trust of India, Lalit K Jha, was covering the pro-Khalistan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":342698,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15084,36],"tags":[16369,16370],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342697"}],"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=342697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342699,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342697\/revisions\/342699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/342698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}