The Rioting Mob Attacked Our Journalists Not Bengaluru Police - Suvarna News Refutes Editors Guild Statement

Suvarna News in a press statement on Friday evening (14 August) refuted an Editors Guild statement which had claimed that its journalists were attacked by the Bangalore City Police while they were covering the mob violence in Bengaluru.

In its statement, Suvarna News' Editor-in-Chief Ravi Hegde clarified that the channel's journalists were actually attacked by the mob which had perpetrated the violence on the night of 11 August.

The statement adds that three Suvarna News reporters were assaulted by the mob which also damaged two news vehicles and a camera. An FIR has been filed against them with the Bangalore City Police.

The Editors Guild on the other hand had claimed in its 13 August statement that, "...In Bengaluru, as many as four journalists belonging to India Today, The News Minute and Suvarna News 24x7 were reportedly attacked by the city police".

The statement went on to call the Bengaluru incident a "failure of law enforcement agencies" and demanded that action be taken against the guilty.

A Muslim mob had gone on a rampage in parts of East Bengaluru on the night of 11 August over a Facebook post which they deemed derogatory to Mohammed whom they revere as their Prophet. The hand of radical Islamist organisation PFI's political arm - SDPI, is suspected in the violence.