TIWN Nov 17, 2020
AGARTALA, Nov 17 (TIWN): Increasing attacks on Journalists in Tripura have turned the works of press persons most difficult in state. Among the recent attacks, where a daily newspaper Pratibadi Kalam was attacked by burning newspapers, then attacks in Zee Tripura Office, severe attacks were brought upon a photo-journalist Biswajit Dey, S/O-Dipak Kumar Dey, works in a news channel "Digantabarta" at Dharmanagar subdivision, North Tripura. The incident took place at Harimandir road area, when he was covering a clash incident there which he spotted while doing "Kali Puja Porikrama" programme. Few hooligans were in fight with each other when Biswajit tried to capture the ongoing. Then, all of a sudden, he was attacked by those hooligans severely and beaten him on his head. Although, none of the goons could be identified by Biswajit but one of them was a Tom-Tom driver whose vehicle number is DMCER 1957. Although FIR has been lodged but no arrest was done so far. Biswajit Dey mentioned that around 7 to 8 people were behind the attack.
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