Protests over abduction bid of newspaper employee

Shillong , Oct 6 : The incident of attempted kidnap of an employee of a local daily today triggered protests by journalists in Meghalaya who decided to take up the matter with the Chief Minister D D Lapang.

According to the complaint filed with the police, the DPT operator of&aposU Mawphor&aposvernacular newspaper was on way home on Saturday night, when he was forced to get into a white ambulance by three unidentified persons and taken to a desolate place.

As the man was taken out of the vehicle and threatened to be shot dead, he landed a few blows on the abductors, freed himself and ran to the nearby bushes, police said. The name of the employee was not made known by the police.