By Arvind Ojha
New Delhi, July 22, 2020: A journalist in Uttar Pradesh died on July 22, two days after he was shot while traveling with his daughters.
Vikram Joshi was attacked by miscreants in the evening of July 20 in Ghaziabad near Delhi. The incident has been caught on a CCTV camera.
Joshi was attacked days after he had filed a police complaint over harassment of his niece. He was travelling with his daughters when a group of men sprayed him with bullets in front of his children.
He was rushed to Yashoda Hospital in Ghaziabad’s Nehru Nagar, but he succumbed to injuries two days later.
Doctors said Joshi was put on ventilator but he died as he had suffered a bullet injury on his head.
The senior Superintendent of Police in Ghaziabad said that they have arrested nine people in the case so far. The station in-charge, where Joshi had filed a complaint, has been suspended and departmental inquiry initiated.
The CCTV footage shows a group of men stopped Vikram Joshi and started hitting him.
The assailants then dragged Joshi towards a car and hit him before they fled the spot.
With Vikram Joshi on the road, one of his daughters rushed to him. She screamed for help after which the grievously injured journalist was rushed to the hospital.
The action by the UP Police followed after Joshi’s family alleged that the attack was related to a complaint he had made a week earlier regarding harassment of his niece by a group of men.
Joshi’s brother Aniket said the journalist had submitted a written complaint in Vijay Nagar police station alleging that some men had misbehaved with his niece.
Aniket told ANI news agency that while a case had been filed in connection with the complaint, no arrests were made. He alleged that his brother was attacked by the men who misbehaved with their niece.
Source: indiatoday.in