While taking photographs of the mob violence in Azad Maidan as part of an assignment, Kamble was brutally assaulted by SRPF jawans. The jawans also tried to destroy evidence of the riots by vandalising his camera, a Nikon D2X with a Nikon Lens 17-55mm, 2.8, with a total value ofu00a0Rs 3.5 lakh.u00a0