Mangalore: Miscreants Set Karavali Ale bundles on Fire in BC Road

Media Release

• Thousands of copies destroyed

Bantwal, Sep 1: Thousands of copies of leading Kannada eveninger Karavali Ale were destroyed when the newspaper bundles which were being dispatched to agents at the BC Road bus stand on Saturday September 1 were burnt by a group of miscreants. The Miscreants snatched the newspaper bundles and later set them on fire.

The assailants who had arrived in a vehicle were waiting for the buses carrying the Karavali Ale bundles at the bus stand and as the bundles were dispatched and the agents were collecting the same, they grabbed the bundles and then set them on fire by pouring kerosene oil. A few more bundles were thrown by them into the nearby drainage.

The newspaper bundles were to be distributed in different places of the taluk including Siddakatte, Vittal and BC Road. The Karavali Ale copies thus could not reach various places owing to the incident which is said to be a pre-planned act.

It is suspected that the incident took place in retaliation to some news item that had appeared in the eveninger. A police complaint has been lodged in this regard.