A petrol bomb was thrown at the home of a leading investigative journalist in India on Monday night (28 April). Devinder Pal, who works for the the Punjabi Tribune, was in bed at the time but was able to douse the resulting fire without injury.
Kanwar Sandhu, executive editor of the Tribune's English-language sister publication, said police had launched an investigation at Pal's home in Chandigarh.
Pal recently wrote a series of investigative reports for the paper about the business interests of extended family members of a high-level government official ahead of voting in the current Indian parliamentary election.
The New York-based press watchdog, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), condemned the attack and called on the Indian authorities "to conduct a thorough and efficient investigation" into the attack and "hold the perpetrators to account."
Sources: Punjab Tribune/CPJ
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