Days after a Shahjahanpur-based scribe was burnt for writing against a State Minister, a case of brutal attack on a TV journalist has come to light from Pilibhit district of Uttar Pradesh.
Haidar Khan, who was reporting on cases of land grab by one Arvind Prakash, was attacked by him on the night of June 13.
An FIR has been registered against Prakash and his accomplices under Section 323 (causing hurt), 504 (insult to provoke breach of peace) and 506 ( criminal intimidation) of the IPC. Sudhir and Pyare Lal, the two accomplices have been arrested by the police.
Mr. Khan told the media that on June 13 he received a phone call about an important story in the nearby village but when he reached the spot he was attacked by Prakash and his two friends.
"I was attacked by Prakash and his two friends who tied me and dragged me behind motorcycle until I lost consciousness," Mr. Haidar said.
"After I lost consciousness I was abandoned on the road from where people took me to the local police station from where I was taken to the government hospital in Pilibhit," he said.
"I had highlighted in one of my reports that Prakash was trying to pressurise his father to transfer six acres of agricultural land, which belongs to his brother, who is visually impaired. He had brutally beaten his father in order to force him to transfer the land to him, which I had reported," Mr. Khan claimed.
