INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
by unknown persons at the residence of Patricia Mukhim, the editor of The Shillong Times, on Tuesday evening, in Meghalaya's Umpling
masked, were seen near her residence, hurling a petrol bomb at Ms Mukhim's bedroom window
The superintendent of police, Davis Marak, reached the spot soon after he was informed by the locals, say reports.An inquiry has been
initiated by the police but no one has yet been caught.Ms Mukhim, a Padma Shree awardee, known for her hard-hitting journalism, said she was
EyewitnessesThe Shillong Press Club has raised concerns over the security of journalists in the state and strongly condemned the bomb attack
at Ms Mukhim's residence.According to a report in The Shillong Times, the president of the press club, David Laitphlang urged the
authorities to catch the men behind the attack on the editor
"Peace has been our hallmark but we will not cower down before forces of evil and no attempt to dissuade us from discharging our
professional duties and rendering our service will ever fructify," Mr Laitphlang told The Shillong Times.Journalists in the northeast are
under constant threat of being targeted
On September 20, last year Shantanu Bhowmick, a television reporter was killed in Tripura by a mob, while covering violence between two
Within two months, another journalist, Sudip Datta Bhaumik, was shot dead allegedly by the guard of an officer of the Tripura State Rifles
Investigations into both the cases haven't gone far.
