A group of local youths meted out misbehavior to journalist Asim Ansari who was at Sunsari Harinagar Rural Municipality for reporting about distribution of low quality relief materials on April 28. Sunsari lies in Province 1.
Journalist Ansari is associated with Barnamala daily.
As per Freedom Forum's representative for Province 1, Bikram Niraula, journalist Ansari was misbehaved by the group of local youths. When locals were protesting against municipality as they claimed that they received low quality relief materials, journalist Ansari visited to the place for reporting. But the youths vandalized journalist's media equipment.
Meanwhile, police arrested one youth among the youths who misbehaved journalist.
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