Another journalist killed in Tripura, Twitter erupts!

Sudip Datta Bhaumik was shot dead on Tuesday by a Tripura State Rifles (TSR) constable Nandagopal Reang at their headquarters following an altercation.

After the killing of a reporter Shantanu Bhowmik back in September, another journalist, Sudip Datta Bhaumik, was allegedly shot dead by a Tripura State Rifles (TSR) jawan Nandagopal Reang at RK Nagar in Tripura. Reang has now been arrested by the police.

Bhaumik’s killing comes merely two months after Shantanu Bhowmik, 27, was kidnapped and murdered brutally by a mob at Mandwai, allegedly in the presence of police. He was killed at the 2nd Bn Tripura State Rifles headquarters following an argument with the TSR jawan. SP of the West district Abhijit Saptarshi told The Indian Express that an investigation is underway to unravel the details of the murder.

Sudip Datta Bhaumik, Tripura, Journalist

(Photo Courtesy: Express Archive/Abhishek Saha)

While speaking to The Indian Express, editor of Syandan Patrika Subal Kumar Dey stated that Bhaumik had made an appointment for a meeting with Commandant of the 2nd TSR at RK Nagar. However, when he arrived, he got into an argument with the constable. “When he reached there he apparently had an argument with a PSO of the Commandant outside the latter’s office, during which the PSO shot at him. Sudip died on the spot,” Dey stated.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee took to Twitter to condemn the Bhaumik’s killing.

Sudip Datta Bhaumik, Tripura, Journalist

(Photo Courtesy: Express Archive/Abhishek Saha)

Several others joined in, some even questioning the position of authorities over such unruly behaviour.

Shantanu Bhaumik, a journalist for a local television channel, was killed on September 20 in Mandwai, nearly 40 km from Agartala, after he had gone to cover an incident amid clashes between Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT) and CPI(M) supporters.

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