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mid-day lensman assault: Brute guards arrested but not sacked
Updated On: 06 November, 2016 08:08 AM IST | | Sailee Dhayalkar
TOPSGRUP won't sack its rogue guards who thrashed press photojournalists in Mumbai on November 4, merely suspends them; Tata drags its feet on firing agency


Members of the Thane Shahar Patrakar Sangh yesterday at Court Naka, Thane, protest the merciless assault on three photojournalists, including mid-day’s Atul Kamble, by the security guards of Tata Sons on Friday. The lensmen were attacked outside Bombay House, the headquarters of Tata Group, while covering the arrival of ousted Tata Sons chairman Cyrus Mistry
The MRA Marg police on Saturday arrested Mayuresh Gurav and Ganesh Shinde, the two TOPSGRUP security personnel who on Friday assaulted three media personnel outside Tata headquarters, Bombay House. The lensmen were waiting at the Fort building to take photographs of former Tata chairman Cyrus Mistry expected to arrive at the venue for a meeting. It was while they were on the job that mid-day photographer Atul Kamble, Arijit Sen of Hindustan Times and S L Shanth Kumar of Times of India were assaulted by Gurav and Shinde.


