KPPA condemns beating of photojournalists near Fateh Kadal gunfight site

Terms the behaviour of two senior Police officers as “brazen”

Terms the behaviour of two senior Police officers as “brazen”

Srinagar, Oct 17 (KNS): Kashmir Press Photographers Association (KPPA) Wednesday condemned the thrashing of several photojournalists by two senior Police officers while they were discharging their professional duties, covering a gunfight at Fateh Kadal in Srinagar downtown.
In a statement to KNS, a spokesman of KPPA said two senior Police officers - Superintendent of Police (North City) and Superintendent of Police (Cargo) - used abusive language against the photojournalists while they were covering the Fateh Kadal gunfight and roughed up several of them.
The spokesman termed the behaviour of the two senior Police officers as “brazen” and “uncalled for” and urged the authorities to take immediate action against them.
The spokesman said that the senior Police officers had behaved like "ruffians" and not only came in way of the photojournalists performing their professional obligations but also beat them to pulp and threatened them of life.
The KPPA spokesman said if immediate action was not taken against these two senior Police officers then the photojournalist community would be forced to hit the streets in protest. (KNS)
 

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