Woman journalist assaulted at Delhi's popular park

In a shocking incident, a 45-year- old freelance journalist was brutally attacked by unidentified persons when she was out for a walk at a popular park in northwest Delhi's Bharat Nagar area.

The incident took place last evening when Aparna Kalra had gone to Picnic Hut at Ashok Vihar, which is usually crowded with walkers around that time, for her routine walk, police said today.

The victim was first rushed to Deep Chand Bandhu Hospital which referred her to Fortis Hospital at Shalimar Bagh where she underwent an emergency cranial surgery, said Dr P K Sachdeva, Additional Director, Fortis Hospital, who operated on her.

"She was brought to our hospital last night, bleeding profusely from the scalp. After the investigation, we immediately wheeled her into the operation theatre. The initial surgery lasted for about two hours and 30 minutes, after which we put her into the ICU (intensive care unit).

"A CT scan was conducted which showed multiple fracture, huge blood clot in her scalp, which could have proved fatal.

A part of her scalp had to be removed. She is currently stable and still in the ICU as cranial surgery cases need to be monitored," Sachdeva told

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