The three journalists were conducting follow-up reporting on a Delhi violence complainant by, Shanno, who had accused police officials at the Bhajanpura police station of beating and sexually assaulting her and her 17-year-old daughter on the night of 8 August. On the afternoon of 11 August, a mob assaulted these three journalists working with The Caravan—Shahid Tantray, Prabhjit Singh and a woman journalist—in Subhash Mohalla, in northeast Delhi’s North Ghonda neighbourhood. They were taking photographs of saffron flags that had been tied in the area, when some men approached them and told them to stop. The mob launched their attack upon realizing that Tantray was Muslim. For around an hour and a half, the journalists were under attack, subjected to communal slurs, threatened with murder and sexually harassed.