A month after he wrote a news story about real estate agents “illegally acquiring” 12 acres of tribal land in Kerala, a journalist with media house Madhyamam was booked by the police in Palakkad.
R Sunil was booked for “creating nuisance” in an FIR filed on September 21, which said he had attempted to “defame” the complainant, a real estate agent named Joseph Kurian. A local activist named Sukumaran was also named in the FIR. They were booked under section 120(o) of the Kerala Police Act.
