Click to play videoMumbai: The Mumbai office of Star TV, which is located at Dr E Moses Road, Mahalaxmi complex, was on Monday ransacked by a group of activists allegedly belonging to the Hindu Rashtriya Sena.
The group of young ruffians, who casually sauntered past a police van unhurried and undettered after vandalizing the office, feared nothing.
The incident was perhaps the most damning indictment of state apathy, which is why journalists across the spectrum came together in for a meeting at Azad Maidan in Mumbai on Tuesday.
"We have come together to show that we can stand united,” says Editor, Zee News, Mumbai, Ravikant Mittal.
The journalists shouted slogans, and later the police finally got their act together. They arrested some of the alleged attackers. Twenty-four men in the age group of 18 to 24 years were remanded to police custody till April 21. And two juvenile delinquents were sent to safe custody.
But with the chief conspirator, the chairman of the Hindu Rashtra Sena, Dhananjay Desai is still absconding.
Meanwhile, senior journalists are unhappy with the progress of the case.
"Catching few people like this will not suffice. They have to send a strong deterrent message, so that attacks like this are not repeated,” says Shishir Joshi of Aaj Tak.
And if the attackers thought they would have cowed down the media, the reaction was just the opposite.
"They cannot silence the media either through the gun or the hammer,” says Milind Khandekar of Star News.
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