Indian Women Press Corps expresses shock over attacks on media-persons in Bishara (Dadri)

New Delhi: The Indian Women's Press Corps expresses shock and condemns the manner in which media-persons, including women reporters were intimidated, chased and attacked when on assignment at Bisada vilage, Dadri (Uttar Pradesh), following the lynching of a person following rumors of cow slaughter. 

As per some reports in leading newspapers, filed in first person by journalists who visited Bishara, the village women were instigated to attack the journalists who were merely on duty doing their job.

That this should have happened in a place which witnessed a violent murder and that too a few kilometres from the national capital's border is highly condemnable.

The IWPC urges the state government to provide adequate security in the village not only to the mediapersons but to those families who have reason to feel insecure in the aftermath of the event.