Three individuals have been detained in reference to the homicide of a 33-year-old journalist whose physique was present in a septic tank on an area contractor’s property in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district, police mentioned on Saturday.
Mukesh Chandrakar, a freelance journalist, went lacking on January 1, and his physique was discovered on Friday within the septic tank on a property owned by contractor Suresh Chandrakar at Chattanpara Basti in Bijapur city.
“Three individuals have been detained in reference to the homicide and are being interrogated,” an official right here mentioned.
The police, nonetheless, didn’t disclose their names and mentioned the main points could be revealed later within the day.
Mukesh labored as a contract journalist for information channels, together with NDTV, and ran a YouTube channel, ‘Bastar Junction’, which has some 1.59 lakh subscribers. He had performed a vital position within the launch of a CoBRA commando, Rakeshwar Singh Manhas, from Maoists’ captivity in April 2021 following the Takalguda Naxal ambush in Bijapur, whereby 22 safety personnel had been martyred.
He went lacking on Wednesday night, and his elder brother Yukesh Chandrakar lodged a grievance with the police the subsequent day, a senior police official mentioned.
Monitoring Mukesh’s cell quantity, police reached the property owned by Suresh Chandrakar and located the physique in a septic tank, which was freshly solid with concrete slab, he mentioned.
Police suspect the homicide is linked to a current report of irregularities in highway development work within the district the sufferer had coated. Suresh Chandrakar is alleged to be concerned within the work.
Journalists held a symbolic highway blockade at Hospital Chowk on Nationwide Freeway 36 within the metropolis within the morning, demanding that the contractor’s properties in Bastar division, together with Bijapur, be hooked up and a case be registered towards him.
Additionally they demanded a loss of life sentence for the contractor and others concerned within the homicide, removing of safety element for him, and sealing of his financial institution accounts, amongst different calls for.
The protesting journalists additionally sought the suspension or switch of the Bijapur superintendent of police.
Protestors have warned of an indefinite highway blockade from Sunday if their calls for will not be met.
Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai on Friday assured that the culprits could be arrested on the earliest.
In the meantime, members of the Raipur Press Membership on Friday gathered at Jai Stambh Chowk and demanded motion towards the killers and sought that the state authorities represent a particular investigation workforce to probe the homicide. PTI
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