Protesting yet another case of attack on the media in Bhubaneswar, members of the Press Club of Brahmapur took out a bike rally to DIG of Police office here and submitted a memorandum addressed to the Chief Minister through the DIG on Thursday demanding adequate security for working journalists.They demanded justice for the scribes assaulted by RPF IIC Sanjay Kumar Swain at the Bhubaneswar railway station on Monday.Scribe KC Panda condemned the attack, saying this was an assault on the fundamental rights of journalists.
Another scribe Sisir Panigrahi said the barbaric attack on scribes was an attempt by the RPF IIC to suppress the voice of the media. He described the suspension of the IIC mere eyewash.The journalists pointed out several other instances of attack on journalists in Bhubaneswar and elsewhere in the State and demanded safety of the scribes.