Journo Amit Sharma brutally thrashed, urinated in mouth by Railway police and locked in police station in Shamli. Shame

A journalist in Shamli Uttar Pradesh Amit Sharma was brutally thrashed, abused, kicked repeatedly, urine put into his mouth and put inside the police lock up by the drunk GRP police and SHO Rakesh Kumar Upadhyay in broad day light.

The mobile phone of the journalist has been thrown apart. The fault of the journalist was that he had gone to cover an incident of the derailing of three coaches of a train in Shamli Uttar Pradesh and a story on hawkers inside the railway station n trains.

According to journalist Amit Sharma one of the cop was heavily drunk. The police were behaving like goons and left no stone unturned to ensure that journalist Amit Sharma is brutally beaten in broad day light and taught a lesson.

The inspector has been suspended after the vedio became viral and has been repeatedly telecast in various media channels.

The local media in Shamli staged protest demonstration and Dharna outside the police station where Amit Sharma was arbitrarily put behind bar in a lock up after being brutally thrashed, abused, urinated in mouth and his mobile damaged in broad day light and was also asked to strip in the police station.

The DIG came on the Dharna site and assured the protesting journalists that he will bring the erring policeman to justice and FIR lodged against him.

After incessant pressure and media blitkriez the police authorities were compelled to suspend the police inspector responsible for attack on the journalist.

The UP police and GRP seems to have gone berserk in the state and is arbitrarily infringing upon the constititional rights of free will and free speech of journos without any fault of theirs.

It may be recalled that the Supreme Court has recently granted bail to an arbitrarily arrested journalist who was sent to 11 days remand by Uttar Pradesh police.

The court was shocked and questioned: was he a murder accused, send on 11 days remand. It also questioned as to how can a journalist be arrested for simply tweeting in his twitter handle ? The UP police has come to the Delhi house of free lance journalist Prashant Kanojia and arrested him without giving his wife Jagisha Arora opportunity to even speak to her terrified husband.

The journo was maltreated as if he was a hardened criminal involved in a murder.

The apex court has questioned the arbitrary attitude of the Noida police in infringing upon the right of a journalist for free speech and expression.

Two other journalists of Nation Live news channel Ishika Singh and news editoe Anuj Shukla had been arrested for airing the news and the vedio of a women casting aspersions on the UP CM Yogi Adityanath with out checking the facts and corroboration of the incident.

Today’s incident of brutal thrashing of a Shamli journalist in broad day light has send shock waves through the spines of countrymen This brutal attitude disolays the barbaric character of UP police towards journalists. Several other journalists are behind bars in UP for face books posts against the ruling party administration.