Five more arrested in newspaper office attack

"The accused - Kipa Nai, Tadar Mama, Gyamar Talik, Kipa Simi and Tadar Chada - surrendered before the police on Thursday," Capital SP Surender Kumar said here yesterday.

With this, all the ten accused involved in the ransacking of 'Echo of Arunachal' office and assault on its Associate Editor Tapan Kumar Das on November 9, have been arrested.

After being produced before a local court here, they were remanded to 14 days judicial custody, Kumar said.

Earlier, the police had arrested the prime accused Dobing Sonam and three others from a hotel in Guwahati on November 20, and another accused from Polo Colony, Naharlagun on November 13.