Suddip Datta Bhaumik, a crime reporter, was allegedly shot dead on the orders of an army official on Tuesday while investigating a story on a paramilitary base. Indian journalist critical of Hindu extremists is shot dead in Bangalore Read morePolice have accused Tapan Debbarma, the commandant of the Second Tripura State Rifles, of ordering his bodyguard to shoot Bhaumik. ANI (@ANI) Majority of the newspapers in Tripura leave the space for editorials blank in protest against killing of journalist Sudip Datta Bhowmik. Most of the newspapers in the state ran blank editorial pages on Thursday as an “institutional protest”, said Manas Paul, the editor of the Tripura Times. Gauri Lankesh, an editor and activist, was shot dead on her doorstep the same month by armed assailants, a killing that sparked national protests because of her prominent opposition to the rightwing ideology of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.

Source: The Guardian November 24, 2017 06:22 UTC