Journalists in New Delhi were subjected to rough treatment, threats, and violence as they went about their duty to cover the communal violence that gripped sections of northeast Delhi.

A few days since the Shaheen Bagh sit-in commenced women in Delhi’s Jaffrabad and Seelampur have also been performing a sit-in strike but unfortunately, these protestors have enjoyed a thin slice of media attention. On February 23, when Chandrashekhar Azad’s Bhim Army called for a Bharat Bandh, the women of Jaffrabad and Seelampur decided to observe the bandh for it was anti-CAA and pro-Dalit. They were about to begin the construction of a small stage for enhancing their protest at 10:30 am, when the police intervened to stop the stage’s construction.

In the meantime, the same areas saw the construction of stages where pro-CAA citizens had gathered and Kapil Mishra had tweeted around 3:00 pm on Sunday that he’d be coming to one such stage at Maujpur to address the gathering. Only after his address where he said ‘if the roads from Seelampur to Chand Bagh aren’t cleared until Trump’s departure, we will have to come out on the streets‘ on February 23, did the violence begin.

Apart from lines of homes and buildings that were seen being set ablaze, journalists on duty were heckled, harrassed, and attacked by the CAA supporting mob which incited the violence that has been ongoing since the evening of February 23.

‘Anti-CAA protestors were talking and discussing their issues with us but the supporters only frightened us by ordering us to leave immediately,’ a journalist who wished to remain anonymous informed The Logical Indian.

Akaash, a journalist reporting for JK24 survived a bullet shot at while covering the violence perpetrated by Hindutva extremists. Three reporters and one cameraperson working for NDTV – Saurabh Shukla, Arvind Gunasekar, Mariyam Alavi and Akshay Dongre were badly injured. Shukla was hit by lathis, Gunasekar lost three of his teeth, Alavi was hit on her back and Dongre was assaulted by the mob.

.@Saurabh_Unmute was punched and hit with a lathi, he is limping. @arvindgunasekar lost three teeth. @MariyamAlavi was hit on the back by a mob. The cameraperson with them, Sushil Rathee, was also injured. Akshay Kumar Dongare was assaulted by a mob. https://t.co/zfFbzqprE2

— Rohan Venkat (@RohanV) February 25, 2020

Even a few foreigners representing international media were present at the region to report the violence but they were made to leave, as per the testimonies of the journalists who spoke with The Logical Indian.

We reached out to a few journalists who were witnesses to the violence and experienced the bigotry of the mob who had thronged the lanes and bylanes of Maujpur, Babarpur, Chand Bagh, Seelampur, Jafrabad, Kardampuri, Gokulpuri and Shivpuri.

Northeast Delhi marked in the map were violence since February 24 has created a wave of terror and panic.

Wishing to remain unnamed a broadcast journalist informed that a ‘banana chips factory’ along with standalone shops were being set on fire as on the 26th of February. However, two days before, the situation was far worse as individuals who were visibly Muslim, donning skull caps and hijabs, were being attacked regardless of whether they were protesting against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act or not.

‘Today (February 26) the area is under control due to the flag marches that were conducted by sections of the Delhi police and paramilitary forces. But yesterday, random passersby who were seen wearing skullcaps were being targetted during the assault,’ the journalist said.

Sreya Chatterjee, a former Senior Correspondent at NewsX, was threatened as she tried to document the incidents of the ongoing violence. ‘They first asked me to not record any videos and then issued a verbal threat justifying that my recordings will cause them to be arrested.’ She was present on the ground during the violence on February 24 and 25, closely observing the events that were unfolding.

‘The Delhi police on February 24 facilitated the rioters. The next day, since there were prohibitory orders, they were mute spectators and displayed callousness letting the mob do whatever they wanted,’ she said.

Replying to former journalist Aditya Raj Kaul, who falsely implicated that the anti-CAA protestors were the perpetrators the violence, Sreya Chatterjee replied testifying that she was present to see the CAA supporters burn houses and shops down. ‘They started pelting stones towards anti-CAA protestors. This was before the anti-CAA protestors reacted,’ she had tweeted.

Yes! I was on the ground where Pro-CAA protestors burned houses. Broke shops. Started pelting stones towards Anti-CAA protestors. This was before Anti-CAA protestors reacted. Reading your thread, I had to say it is far from the truth. Here in Maujpur since morning

— Sreya Chatterjee (@Sreya_Chattrjee) February 24, 2020Aditya Raj Kaul, who was previously with Republic TV, has deleted his tweet but in the world of screenshots, his post has been…