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Patna: A journalist who worked for a Hindi Daily in Bihar’s Araria district, was gunned down by unidentified assailants on Friday. This was reported by the police and it was told that the incident occurred in Prem Nagar under Raniganj police station at around 5 a.m.
It is being reported that the accused, came on a bike, reached the journalist, Vimal Kumar’s house and then asked him to come out. As soon as the victim stepped out, one of the attackers shot him on the right side of the chest and he died on the spot.
“The accused collapsed on the ground and died on the spot. The family members rushed him to the Sadar hospital where doctors declared him brought dead,” Araria SP Ashok Kumar Singh said. Vimal Kumar was a witness in the murder case of his brother who was killed in 2019.
The widow of the deceased journalist, Puja Kumari said that they rushed him to the hospital where the doctors declared him dead. According to Vimal Kumar’s wife, the journalist was threatened several times to turn hostile as he was a key witness in the murder of his brother.
“We have registered an FIR against two persons and the investigation is underway. We have received one dead cartridge from the spot. We have called for a dog squad and FSL team to collect the evidence. Efforts are on to identify the accused,” Singh said.
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Amarendra Kumar, President of the Araria District Journalist Association has called this a “heart breaking incident” and has also said that this raises a lot of questions on the law and order situation in the state of Bihar.
It was on Thursday that the Chief Minister of Bihar, Nitish Kumar had claimed that crime rate in the state has gone down and related cases are very less in number as compared to the other states of the country. Slamming the government for their remark, Chirag Paswan, the LJP chief has said that the CM of Bihar should show the ‘statistics of reduced crime cases in Bihar’ to the families of those police officials who lost their lives and to the family of the journalist who was gunned down.
A few days ago, another incident of murder happened in Samastipur on August 15, 2023 when a sub-inspector rank officer was killed by cattle smugglers. As mentioned earlier, this journalist was a witness in his brother’s murder case that occurred in 2019.
(Inputs from IANS)
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