Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.

Via Niti Central:

Violence marked the Eid-e-Milad-un-Nabi celebrations in Odisha with Muslims taking exception to a purported picture of Prophet Mohammed published in a major Odia daily on his birth anniversary on Tuesday.

Angry protesters shouting slogans against Odia daily Samaja — which carried the controversial image, resorted to violence and damaged property estimated to be around Rs 3 crore targetting the newspaper’s offices located in Cuttack, Balasore and Rourkela.

Cuttack city, home to Samaja headquarters, witnessed violent protests with the agitators demanding unconditional apology from the said publication. As the police intervened trying to work out peace between the parties, the newspaper issued an unconditional apology signed by its executive editor Satya Ray. But that failed to calm down the agitators who subsequently demanded the arrest of those responsible for the publication of that controversial picture.

Oddly enough, despite the unconditional public apology, the Samaj management have had no qualms in giving out the name of the sub-editor who supposedly handled the story with the controversial picture.

The sub-editor, Jitendra Prasad Das has been arrested by the police. The police action against Jitendra Prasad Das drew widespread condemnation from the journalistic fraternity across Odisha.