Noida: In still another robbery at town, the editor-in-chief of some Hindi news station traveling in his own SUV was supposedly waylaid by five masked youths about 2 bicycles and robbed of money at gunpoint at the Sector 49 police station place in the sleepless night of June 19-20.
The place lies hardly 300 metres in the Growth police place in Greater Noida (expansion ).
The assailants, but spared the existence span of Atul Agrawal, ” the editor-in-chief of both Hindi Khabar, later he pleaded with them which he has a little son to increase.
The journalist has discussed his own ordeal at an Facebook article –“lifestyle is secure likely because I’m a TV anchor .The youths who talked a Haryana dialect, Atul maintained, also researched his Safari after viewing a media decal on the windscreen.
They had demanded that the journalist hands over his iphone but abandoned with no when Atul told them he had been an government-accredited journalist and they’d get monitored shortly.
The five concentrated Atul at the intervening night of June 19-20 once he’d ceased to look at his automobile’s music system several 300 metres before their Growth police chowki.
“All the accused were concealed and a few of them got down and pulled on the automobile door .
Considering that the car was secured, it couldn’t open and he doubted the automobile window asking to pull the window down.
As soon as I dilly-dallied to pull the window down, he took a pistol…,” he wrote.
“I opened up the door and he left me come outside at gunpoint and himself sat the driver’s chair even as others covered me” The tall youth seen the’Hindi Khabar’ decal in his Safari and inquired if he had been from the press.
When Atul told him his title, a second accused asserted he had discovered his own name.
Then they requested him to deliver his string, ring, watch and mobile and money.
He gave them 5,000-6,000 that he had been responsible for.
After he gave his phone away into an individual accused, Atul informed him he had been a PIB-accredited journalist and also his particulars, fingerprints along with IMEI number were enrolled together with the Union authorities.
They threw the telephone to the vehicle seat and hauled off.
DCP (fundamental Noida) Harish Chander said Atul does not wish to file a complaint.
“We’re probing the inciden,” he explained.
News anchor Ran at gunpoint by 5.
