<p>The police have arrested a paramilitary officer<a href="http://www.wionews.com/india-news/newspapers-in-tripura-protest-against-killing-of-journalist-24900">&nbsp;for the murder of a journalist</a> shot dead while investigating allegations of financial fraud against him.</p>

<p>Reporter Sudip Dutta Bhaumik was allegedly killed by a junior officer when he went to a paramilitary base in the northeastern state of Tripura on Tuesday to investigate a story.</p>

<p>Police said Tapan Debbarma, the commandant of the Second Tripura State Rifles (part of sate paramilitary), was arrested Wednesday on charges he ordered his bodyguard to shoot the reporter.</p>

<p>&quot;He (Debbarma) was arrested yesterday and produced before the magistrate. He has been remanded to 10 days of police custody,&quot; local police superintendent Pradeep Dey told AFP on Thursday.</p>

<p>&quot;His security guard Nandu Reang was arrested on Tuesday itself.&quot;</p>

<p>On Wednesday Bhaumik&#39;s editor&nbsp;Subal Kumar Dey said the murder was linked to articles the reporter had written.</p>

<p>He was the third journalist to be killed in as many months in India and newspapers in Tripura on Thursday carried blank editorial pages in protest.</p>

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Reporter Sudip Dutta Bhaumik was allegedly killed by a junior officer when he went to a paramilitary base in the northeastern state of Tripura on Tuesday to investigate a story

The police have arrested a paramilitary officer for the murder of a journalist shot dead while investigating allegations of financial fraud against him. Reporter Sudip Dutta Bhaumik was allegedly killed by a junior officer when he went to a paramilitary base in the northeastern state of Tripura on Tuesday to investigate a story. Police said Tapan Debbarma, the commandant of the Second Tripura State Rifles (part of sate paramilitary), was arrested Wednesday on charges he ordered his bodyguard to shoot the reporter. "He (Debbarma) was arrested yesterday and produced before the magistrate. He has been remanded to 10 days of police custody," local police superintendent Pradeep Dey told AFP on Thursday. "His security guard Nandu Reang was arrested on Tuesday itself." On Wednesday Bhaumik's editor Subal Kumar Dey said the murder was linked to articles the reporter had written. He was the third journalist to be killed in as many months in India and newspapers in Tripura on Thursday carried blank editorial pages in protest. Majority of the newspapers in Tripura leave the space for editorials blank in protest against killing of journalist Sudip Datta Bhowmik. pic.twitter.com/K1Y8PpGUsg — ANI (@ANI) November 23, 2017 ×

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Tripura State Rifles officer arrested for journalist's murder