Five held for attack on scribes, news paper office

	Five persons were arrested today in connection with the attack on the local bureau office of a Malayalam daily and its two staffers during a CPI-M sponsored district hartal here on May 15
	The youths - K K Vaishakh, T Sreejesh, Joshnar Johnson, T Nikhil and M Babinesh - all said to be CPI-M loyalists,were arrested from Chalad and nearby Padannapalam locality in the town this morning, police said. Four youths, including the prime accused in the incident, were still at large, they said.
	The arrest comes in the wake of protests by scribes, led by district unit of Kerala Union of Working Journalists (KUWJ) which recently submitted a memorandum to IGP Tomin J Thachankeri for the"undue delay" in arresting the culprits.
	The KUWJ members had also staged a march to the office of the District Superintendent of Police here on June 4 for the alleged laxity on the part of police in arresting the culprits three weeks after the incident.
	A group had vandalised the local bureau premises of'Mangalam'daily and beat up its reporter T K Joshi and photographer Krishnan Kanhirangad for keeping open the office on May 15 as the CPI-M had enforced a hartal in the Municipal limits to protest the murder of a party worker by suspected activists of Popular Front of India the previous day.