Click to play videoMadurai: A day after their office was set on fire taking the lives of three colleagues, most employees of Tamil daily Dinakaran in Madurai are back at work – but nothing else is quite the same.
Though journalists and employees at the office fight to meet their deadline, behind their determination is real fear.
"My wife and kids said enough – let's go away somewhere, find another job and live peacefully. We're scared. When the government that's supposed to protect us turns against us, where do we go?" said Dinakaran photographer Uma Shankar.
Police have arrested 55 and detained over a hundred a day after the newspaper office was set on fire by supporters of Chief Minister Karunanidhi's elder son Azhagiri. But no case has been filed against him.
"The police simply refused to lodge a complaint against Azhagiri. They said it was too late to file a complaint! He is the man who's behind all this destruction. We want the CBI to conduct an inquiry," said Dinakaran Editor Muthupandian.
The fear has spread outside the Dinakaran office and into the streets of Madurai – so much so that no local is willing to talk about the incident on camera. But they all acknowledge that political goondaism is common in the city.
This is not the first time Karunanidhi's son Azhagiri is facing controversy. In 1997, another Tamil daily, Dinamalar's Madurai office was ransacked and a case have been filed against Azhagiri.
He has also been implicated in a couple of bus burning incidents in Madurai.
But the question now is, will the law be allowed to take its course or does being the son of the Chief Minister mean immunity, even possibly against murder?
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