Anupam Kher terms physical attack on Arnab Goswami 'utter cowardice'; peers echo veteran

Republic Media Network's Editor-In-Chief Arnab Goswami and his wife and Republic TV Editor Samyabrata Ray Goswami were physically attacked late on Wednesday night as they were on their way home.  After they were apprehended, the attackers confessed to Arnab's Mumbai Police attache that they were from the youth Congress and had been sent by party higher-ups to teach him a lesson.   

Celebrities across the political fraternity and some from the film industry strongly condemned the incident. One of the notable names was Anupam Kher who termed it as ‘utter cowardice’.

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The veteran took to Twitter a few hours after the incident. Condemning the attack, the A Wednesday star also sent out a strong message, and wrote that the nation has changed and that such incidents won’t be tolerated anymore.

Here’s the tweet

Kher had also come out in support of Arnab Goswami over strong responses over his recent reportage of the Palghar mob lynching where Republic had posed questions to Sonia Gandhi. 

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National Award-winning director Madhur Bhandarkar also condemned the shocking attack.

Ashoke Pandit expressed concern following the attack

Samyabrata Ray and Arnab Goswami were on their way back home from Republic's Mumbai studios on Wednesday night when their car was attacked by two bike-bourne goons, 500 metres from their residence. Arnab recounted in a video message that they tried to break the glass window, attacked the car with ink and overtook his car, before they were caught by his security guards.

A complaint has been filed with the police.

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