Journalists were attacked and their equipment damaged on Friday by supporters of Asaram Bapu during a bandh called to protest the mysterious death of two boys studying in the ashram's
gurukul.
Supporters of Asaram Bapu came out with sticks and attacked a group of journalists who were outside the ashram in Motera on the outskirts of Ahmedabad.
"We were outside the ashram covering the bandh, when Bapu's supporters came out and attacked us," Gopi Ganghar of
Aajtak television channel
, who sustanined injuries
in the incident, said.