Journalist thrashed, urinated upon by railway cops in UP

A journalist is punched, slapped and abused by a group of policemen as he pleads with them to stop, in a video that has emerged from western Uttar Pradesh at a time the state is in the national glare over the arrest of journalists on charges of "defaming" Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.

The journalist said a group of Railway Police personnel locked him up and abused him last night when he was covering the derailment of a train in Shamli district.

"They were in plain clothes. One hit my camera and it fell down. When I picked it up, they hit and abused me. I was locked up, stripped and they urinated in my mouth," Amit Sharma, a stringer for TV channel News24, said.