Editor released

IN Media Watch Briefs | 25/02/2008

People’s March editor P Govindan Kutty, in judicial custody in Thrissur for 66 days since his arrest on December 19, was released on bail on February 23, 2008, on a bond of Rs. 100,000 and two sureties of equal amounts. He was charged for anti-national activities mainly on the basis of an article he wrote defending the Naxalite attack on the life of Chandrababu Naidu, Andhra chief minister, in 2003. On his release Govindan Kutty told the media that he would continue to write the way he did.

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