Office of Kaaraval evening newspaper attacked

Mangalore Today News Network

Kasargod, March 22: Unknown miscreants attacked the office of “Kaaraval,” an evening newspaper, on March 22 in Kasaragod. Valuable office equipment such as a fax machine, a computer, and a printer has been destroyed. The miscreants set the office on fire using petrol before they fled.  

A furniture manufacturing concern in the vicinity reported the incident at 12 a.m. after which the fire fighting personnel arrived at the spot and doused the fire.  

S Raju, the editor of “Kaaraval,” said that someone had threatened him over the phone a few days ago for publishing a controversial article. Raju suspects the same people of having engineered the attack.  

A protest was later staged at the Press Club against the incident. President of the Journalists’ Association Shibi Joan; Journalists Rehman Thalangady, K M Ahmed, and Vinod Thayam urged the police department to arrest the miscreants as early as possible and take strict action against them.