Journalists to hold protest march against Kolkata Police's brutal attack on media
The rally will start from south Kolkata's Rabindra Sadan area at around 4 pm and will end at the city police's headquarters at Lalbazar.
A large number of Kolkata-based media persons, journalism students and others are likely to take part in the protest march.
On Monday, policemen, led by two IPS officials, Aparajita Rai and Murali Dhar Sharma, lathicharged media persons twice without any reason, while reporters were covering the Left's protest march to state secretariat Nabanna at Mayo Road and Dufferin Road in near Esplanade.
At least 12 senior and junior journalists, photojournalists and videographers, including a correspondent from IBNS, were injured in the sudden strike and four of them were admitted to hospital as their injuries were serious.
Calling the incident unfortunate and undesired, senior officials of city police have said they will look into the matter and take action against the accused cops.
However, no reaction has been received from state Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee so far.
(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)
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