JFA condemns journalist killing in Bihar
Mithilesh Pandey, 40, was shot dead on Sunday in his hometown under Gaya district.
According to family source, two masked persons entered the victim’s house on Saturday evening and shot at him to death.
Pandey was taken to a nearby hospital by his family members but he succumbed to injuries after some time. The scribe used to receive threats because of his reporting in various Hindi newspapers.
The murder of Pandey has increased the tally of slaughtered media persons in India this year till date up to five.
Earlier Hemant Yadav, another middle aged journalist of Uttar Pradesh was shot dead on the night of Oct 3 at Dheena locality of Chandauli district.
Yadav, who worked for Hindi news channel TV24, was attacked by two motorcycle-borne miscreants.
He was taken to a nearby hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.
Prior to that, a Thane based journalist Raghavendra Dube was killed by miscreants in July. Similarly, Jagendra Singh from UP and Sandeep Kothari from Madhya Pradesh lost their lives to attackers in separate incidents in June this year.
“We reiterate our demand for a national action plan to safeguard the brave journalists who pursue critical journalism,” JFA president Rupam Barua and secretary Nava Thakuria said.
“The robust Indian media fraternity must rise on the occasion to compel the authority to punish every single murderer of journalists under the rule of law,” the JFA officials said.
(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
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