KL Report
SRINAGAR
Scores of journalists took to streets on Saturday in South Kashmir’s Islamabad town when police allegedly tried to stop them from talking to chief minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed during latter’s tour in the area.
Journalists told KNS that they were covering the tour of CM to various places in his constituency including Sher Bagh, Rani Bagh, District Hospital and other places.
Reports informed that the newsmen tried to speak to the chief minister over various issues pertaining to the state. They alleged that the security men didn’t allow them to talk to CM and they were beaten to pulp after they protested against what they term the ‘highhanded nesses’ of some state authorities. The journos claimed several of their colleagues were injured during the police action and the security forces also broke their equipments. They demanded that it should be probed why they were stooped from discharging their professional duties.
Meanwhile, a senior officer of Special Security Group (SSG) told KNS that journos had blocked the entire cavalcade of the chief minister on Saturday and since the road already was packed to capacity, it was even difficult for the CM to move ahead.
He outrightly rejected the reports that police has beaten any journalist there. “We do not have lathis in hands. How could we beat anyone? There might have been due to the stampede that some persons would have got injured,” said the SSG officer, adding that journalists wanted to get a bite but at the cost of taking law in their own hands.
