Jammu and Kashmir journalist thrashed up by Ghulam Hanjura’s security staff

Jammu and Kashmir, June 22: J Malik, a local journalist was allegedly beaten up by the security staff of Jammu & Kashmir’s agricultural minister, Ghulam Hanjura. Accoding to Malik, as the the cavalcade of the minister passed by him, his security staffers passed lewd comments at Malik’s wife. (READ: Journalists’ Forum Assam condemns journalist killing)

“I went to speak to the minister, but before I could reach him, he signaled something to his guards and they started thrashing me,” Malik said. He later lodged an FIR with the police. “I registered a complaint with the police because I was beaten at the behest of the minister”, he added.

The attack on Malik, a J&K journalist incidentally follows the killings of Jagendra Singh an Uttar Pradesh journalist who was reportedly burnt alive and Sandeep Kothari, a Madhya Pradesh journalist whose charred body was found in Maharashtra. (Image Credits-ANI)