17 Shiv Sainiks in police custody for IBN-Lokmat attack
Mumbai | Saturday, Nov 21 2009 IST
 

A local court in Vikroli today remanded 17 Shiva Sena workers, arrested in connection with the attack on IBN-Lokmat office, to police custody.

The Police have also informed the court that four people, including Sunil Raut, yougner brother of Shiv Sena MP, Sanjay Raut, who is also the executive editor of Saamna, were absconding.

The city police had arrested 17 Shiv Sainiks in connection with the attack on Vikroli office of Marathi news channel IBN-Lokmat for using ''derogatory'' language against Party chief Bal Thackeray yesterday.

Police today said Pravin Baldev Rajput (32), Naresh Ramesh More (28) and 15 other Shiv Sainiks were arrested at around 2230 hours for the attack yesterday. Cricket stumps and iron rods were recovered from the spot, they said. The Sena activists had allegedly ransacked the office furnitures and manhandled the staff and channel editor Nikhil Wagle.

They were booked for attempt to murder and rioting, the sources added. In a similar incident in Pune, Shiv Sena activists also attacked the IBN-Lokmat office there yesterday.

In a frontpaged article, Saamna, the party organ of Shiva Sena, defended the attack and said that the provaction was certain derogatory remarks made by the Channel Editor in a panel discussion on recent media comments by batting sensation Sachin Tendulkar that ''Mumbai is for all''.

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