India, Feb. 7 -- A first information report (FIR) was filed in connection with the alleged assault on a journalist who was returning home from office on Friday evening, officials said.

The FIR was lodged under sections 126(2) (wrongful restraint), 115(2) (voluntarily causing hurt), 352 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace), and 351(3) (criminal intimidation) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) at Dalanwala police station on the complaint of Hem Bhatt, a journalist with Jai Bharat TV.

In his complaint, Bhatt stated that he was returning to his residence in Shanti Vihar on Haridwar Bypass Road from his office located on Convent Road in the Race Course area on a motorcycle when three individuals riding a scooter over...