Tripura journalist killing: Two more Tripura State Rifles personnel arrested
Sudip Datta Bhowmick
Two more Tripura State Rifles (TSR) personnel were arrested in connection with the killing of journalist Sudip Datta Bhowmick at the para-military force's 2nd battalion headquarters Agartala, the police said today
Two more Tripura State Rifles (TSR) personnel were arrested in connection with the killing of journalist Sudip Datta Bhowmick at the para-military force's 2nd battalion headquarters Agartala, the police said today.
DIGArindam Nath told media that Nayek Amir Debbarma and Rifleman Dharmendra Kumar Singh were arrested on Friday night under the charges of criminal conspiracy for killing a journalist Datta Bhowmick at the battalion's headquarters in RK Nagar, PTI reported.
The arrested TSR personnel were produced before the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Sharmishtha Mukherjee are not under Police custody for seven days.
A senior crime reporter of "Syandan Patrika", Sudip Datta Bhowmick was allegedly shot dead onNovember21,inside the battalion's headquarters, around 15 km from Agartala.
The journalist had gone to battalion's headquarter to meet TSR commandant Tapan Debbarma, one of the arrested TSRpersonnel.
Dutta Bhowmick was allegedly called by the Tapan Debbarma and shot inside the battalion's headquarters because he had written 11 news items about the Debbarma's misdeeds; Editor of "Syandan Patrika" Subal Kumar Dey said on November 24, PTI reported.
Tapan Debbarma's personal bodyguard was also arrested on the next of the killing and also the mobile of the journalist has been recovered. (Also read: Newspapers in Tripura protest against killing of journalist)
In last two months, Datta Bhowmick is the second journalist to have been killed.
In September, TV journalist Shantanu Bhowmick was also killed when he had gone to Mandai in West Tripura district to cover a political event organised by the Indigenous Peoples Front of Tripura (IPFT).