The Hindu : Tamil Nadu / Chennai News : Neighbourhood weekly editor assaulted

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Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu - Chennai

Neighbourhood weekly editor assaulted

Staff Reporter

CHENNAI: The editor and publisher of a neighbourhood weekly of Velachery was assaulted at his office-cum-residence at Ram Nagar, Madipakkam, on Saturday.

V. Manoj Joy was hospitalised with bleeding injuries after being hit with an iron rod and a beer bottle in the head and shoulder.

He is editor and publisher of Velachery Plus, a free neighbourhood weekly. Mr. Manoj was about to leave for a printing press in Guindy. An unidentified youth knocked at his door at 12.45 p.m. After establishing the identity of Manoj, the youth pulled out an iron rod from his shirt and attacked him.

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