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I was assaulted at Shaheen Bagh CAA protest: journalist Deepak Chaurasia

Deepak Chaurasia, consulting editor at News Nation TV channel, on posted a video on Twitter that shows him being shoved.

Deepak Chaurasia beaten at Shaheen Bagh. Photo | Twitter
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An image grab from Deepak Chaurasia's video shows him being shoved at Shaheen Bagh. (Photo: Deepak Chaurasia's Twitter account)

BS Web Team New Delhi
TV journalist Deepak Chaurasia has alleged that he was assaulted when he was reporting at Shaheen Bagh, the place in Delhi where protesters against the new citizenship have been camping for more than a month.

Chaurasia, consulting editor at News Nation TV channel, on Friday night posted a video on Twitter that shows him saying he will speak to protesters about their “pain" against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the proposed National Register of Citizens (NRC) when he is apparently shoved and someone tries to snatch his mike. 

The video also shows a group of men trying to snatch

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