Kantipur Television reporter and FNJ district member Poshnath Adhikari has been assaulted and threatened to be killed by an unidentified group on January 29 evening.

He was attacked at Jayanti Danda of Nilkantha1 as he was returning home in a motorcycle in the evening.

Adhikari said the people also looted his communication devices and threatened to kill him.

Adhikari is also the publisher of Prabhat Kiran Weekly being published from Dhading.