Threats – Journalists

Principal photographer of The New Indian Express, Kshitij and the reporter, IS Gopika, were threatened and abused when they reached Vadayampadi in Kerala to report on the long drawn “caste wall” battle between the Dalits and disciples of Vadayampadi Bhajanamadom Temple .  The reporter, the photographer and the driver were heckled and threatened by the office bearers of the temple forcing them to return as the atmosphere was made vicious for reporting.  Later other office bearers called in to apologize to the NIE office, it was reported.