Blog-In-Pictures: IBN "gagged!"

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They entered the place...attacked the building security guards first...then came running onto the seventh floor office of IBN Lokmat. Attacked the private security guards with baseball bats and iron pipes. Shattered the glass entrances, broke the LCD TV screens. Man-handled the employees they found on the way...all the time crying out slogans and abusing editor Nikhil Wagle and the IBN Network. They then slapped Nikhil Wagle and what then started was a retaliatory fight between the Shiv Sainiks and the IBN Lokmat employees. The editorial and technical staff of IBN Lokmat managed to nab seven of the attackers and handed them over to the Police. Simultaneous, planned attacks were carried out on our IBN Pune office and the Lower Parel office too was threatened..!... All this for reporting against the comments by Balasaheb Thackeray of the Shiv Sena. Where is the Freedom of the PRESS..? ....