Srinagar: Police on Sunday arrested four men for allegedly beating a journalist in Bemina area of Srinagar yesterday.
“Four accused were arrested for beating a journalist yesterday evening. Prima facie the case seems to be that of road-rage. Case was registered at Bemina PS under relevant sections and investigation was taken up yesterday itself,” a police spokesman said.
The victim journalist Shabraiz Bashir, son of late Bashir Ahmad, a resident of Hamdaniya colony Bemina, correspondent with the ‘News Now’, lodged a written complaint that on Saturday he was thrashed and injured by four unknown persons in Bemina Chowk who fled from the spot in a white car, news agency GNS reported.
In this regard case (FIR no 71/22 U/S 341,323 IPC) was registered in Police Station Bemina and investigation was taken up.
During the course of investigation, CCTV footage etc. was analysed and four accused identified as Iqbal Saleem, son of Mohammad Saleem, resident of Hajiabad Bemina; Mohammad Qasim, son of Manzoor Ahmed Dar of Firdous colony Bemina; Imran Manzoor, son of Manzoor Ahmed Badyari, resident of Mansoor colony Bemina, and Jahanger Ahmed Khan, son of Farooq Ahmad Khan, resident of Firdousabad Batamaloo were arrested, police said.
