News channel crew attacked by mining mafia in Punjab village
Hindustan TimesThree crew members of a news channel were injured, one of them seriously, in an attack by mining mafia at a village under in Jalalabad, a subdivision of Fazilka district, on Sunday evening. Suraj, a correspondent of the news channel, told HT over phone that two teams of their channel, including reporter Neeraj Bali and cameramen Sandeep and Pritpal had gone to Amir Khas village in Jalalabad on Sunday evening after getting reports that illegal mining was rampant in the area. Last month, goons of the mining mafia attacked Aam Aadmi Party MLA from Rupnagar, Amarjit Singh Sandoa at Beinhara village, around 90km from Chandigarh. Till filing of the news, Fazilka police booked Anil Chauhan, Gurjant Singh, Samsher Singh and Subhash booked under Sections 308, 382, 427, 506,149,148 and 25,27,54 and 59 of the Arms Act.