Journalist Beaten, Stripped In Kolkata For Covering Poll Violence

The journalist told that his nude photos would be shared on social media as a “message” for others like him.

A photojournalist with The Times Of India, Biplab Mondal, was stripped and beaten in Kolkata while covering nominations for the panchayat polls in the state, scheduled for the first week of May.

According to Mondal, violence had broken out at around 2.30 pm on 9 April, while the nomination process for the polls was on in Kolkata’s Alipore. He was clicking pictures of the same on his mobile phone and was just about to leave when he was rounded up by a bunch of goons, allegedly from the Trinamool Congress. They asked Mondal to delete all the photos from his phone. When he refused, he was beaten up.