Journalist files complaint against Rahul Gandhi over alleged protest misconduct

The complaint stems from an incident that allegedly occurred on October 12, while Parashar was on assignment covering a protest led by Rahul Gandhi near the Supreme Court premises.

Earlier, she alleged that she was "manhandled" and violently shoved by Rahul Gandhi and his security during a chaotic exit from the Supreme Court during the protest march on Monday, an incident that resulted in physical injuries and a traumatic medical emergency for the reporter, who is currently in her first trimester of pregnancy.

For Richa Parashar, what began as a routine professional assignment, capturing a political protest, transformed into a desperate struggle.

I set my microphone, and all of a sudden, in just two seconds, everything happened. It is clearly visible in my video: Rahul Gandhi moved forward and held my handand he pulled it. He pulled it, and I felt his power. He pulled, and in that same second, his guards pushed me. It is clearly visible in the videos on the internet Look at my phone; it's shattered. I was shouting, 'Sir, I am being pushed. Sir, we are leaving. Please don't push.' I was requesting him, 'Please don't push, sir.' And in two seconds, I was pushed. There were stairs at the Supreme Court; I fell on the stairs," she said.

The reporter described a harrowing scene where allegedly her pleas for safety were not only ignored but actively drowned out by the party cadres chants of "Rahul Gandhi Zindabad."So, I fell, the phone fell, but since the microphone was on my collar, it was recorded. I got up and was shouting, 'My microphone has fallen,' and his people were telling me, 'Hey, where did you fall?' I said, 'It's recorded on my camera. You cannot suppress a journalist. I was standing in a large crowd and could not breathe. After that, I was saying there that Rahul Gandhi pushed me. Rahul Gandhi pushed me; he was just behind me. And his people were shouting 'Rahul Gandhi Zindabad, Rahul Gandhi Zindabad' to suppress my voice, she claimed.

And I was shocked because I felt that as a person, there would be someone there who would ask, 'Are you okay? Take some water, move to the side.' Someone should have said, 'Are you okay?' But no one said anything. I could not process it; I was sitting and crying. I shouted on camera, and then I started sitting and crying because, as a woman in the first trimester of pregnancy, I didn't know what the situation would be. I fell on my stomach, she added.

The reporter finally made it to the emergency room at Delhi's Gangaram Hospital, where she was examined for her injuries. (ANI)