evidence: N E W S PA P E R S A N D M A G A Z I N E S and orchestrate mob pressure where certain sections of the public, under the guise of the "people’s power," decide to take the law into their own hands. Threats by aggrieved persons as well as violent physical attacks on staff and properties of newspapers are not uncommon. The Second Press Commission listed several examples, ranging from threats and abuse—such as those experienced by the editor of the Indian Express in 1979 for reporting mass copying and cheating during examinations conducted by Meerut University—to mob attacks, as suffered by the news editor of the Times of India and his staff, also in 1979, for reporting the arrest of a city priest for smuggling. Three newspaper offices were attacked by mobs for reporting an alleged molestation of a female student at the Medical College in Cuttack (Orissa State) in 1981; four newspaper offices were gheraoed (surrounded) in Bangalore in 1980 for "misreporting an incident involving the Karnataka State Chief Minister."