Journalist attacked

IN Media Watch Briefs | 16/04/2017

The Hindustan Times reports that a journalist working with a regional newspaper, Shivraj Singh Raju, was attacked by the Gidderbaha truck union president Charanjit Singh Dhillon and some others at Gidderbaha in Muktsar district on April 15 afternoon. They entered his office and attached him for a report he wrote. He had to be admitted to hospital for the injuries caused. The newspaper he worked for is not named. The Punjab CM has ordered a probe into the attack.

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