At a time when the city’s new police commissioner, Rakesh Maria, has made women’s security his topmost priority after taking charge, five MiD DAY journalists, including a male reporter, were subjected to the most foulest of verbal abuse while they were having lunch yesterday.

The incident occurred around 2 pm, when the five journalists decided to have lunch at a vegetarian restaurant near MiD DAY’s Parel office. The journalists occupied a table behind a group of six men, who got irritated when they were asked by the waiter to move their chairs a little ahead, so that the diners could make their way to the seats.