India: An FIR has been filed against Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav and 20 other party workers on Saturday (March 13) over alleged assault on journalists in Uttar Pradesh’s Moradabad.
The FIR was registered on the basis of a complaint by a journalist at Pakhwara police station late on Friday night under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), police officials told news agency PTI.
The complainant has alleged that Yadav was rattled by a few personal questions posed by journalists during an interaction with him at a hotel on March 11 during a press conference. The FIR claimed that the SP chief allegedly incited security guards and over 20 SP workers to attack the journalists which led to grievous injuries to a few of them.
