You might expect that as the BBC correspondent in Bihar I would only be assaulted for exposing large-scale wrongdoing.
But, if the police are to be believed, the truth to my assault is much more trivial than that.
They say that I was assaulted because of my criticism of the inept running of the management association of the block of flats where I live.
That may be true, but what they have refrained from mentioning is that the target of my disdain just so happens to be a leading local member of India's BJP party who has in the past been the subject of my reports about the scourge of corruption in Bihar. Full story...
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But, if the police are to be believed, the truth to my assault is much more trivial than that.
They say that I was assaulted because of my criticism of the inept running of the management association of the block of flats where I live.
That may be true, but what they have refrained from mentioning is that the target of my disdain just so happens to be a leading local member of India's BJP party who has in the past been the subject of my reports about the scourge of corruption in Bihar. Full story...
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