Independent photojournalist Ashish Raje was at the receiving end of police brutality while covering an anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) protest in Nagpada for this paper on Thursday afternoon.

The Nagpada protest has earned the sobriquet of Mumbai Bagh, after its cousin in the capital, Shaheen Bagh. Raje was slapped four to five times and thrashed with a baton by two policemen at the entrance of the protest site.