Journos block road over arrest of colleague

Express News Service Posted: Aug 03, 2008 at 0440 hrs
Kolkata, August 02 A group of journalists blocked the national highway near Siliguri on Saturday morning for over three hours in protest against the alleged highhanded behaviour of police with a photojournalist of a well known news agency.

The photojournalist was allegedly manhandled and detained at Bhaktinagar place station in Jalpaiguri.The police, however, claimed that the photographer was in an inebriated state and had abused policemen on Friday night. The police later released the journalist.