Another journalist killed in Tripura, this time by TSR jawan

Yet another journalist was killed in Tripura on Tuesday noon, the second in two months. Sudip Datta Bhaumik was allegedly shot by a jawan of the 2nd Tripura State Rifles (TSR) at RK Nagar, about 20 km from Agartala. Nandagopal Reang, the TSR constable has been arrested by the police.

“Sudip Datta Bhaunik, a senior journalist with my newspaper, had gone to meet the Commandant of the 2nd TSR at RK Nagar after obtaining due appointment from him. But when he reached there he had an altercation with a PSO of the Commandant outside the latter’s office, during which the PSO shot at him. Sudip died on the spot,” Subal Dey, editor of Syandan Patrika, a leading Bengali newspaper of Agartala, told The Indian Express over the telephone. Bhaumik’s body was later brought to Agartala, while the police have arrested the PSO, a constable of the TSR, Dey said.

On September 20, Shantanu Bhaumik, a jounalist with Din-Raat, a local TV news channel, was killed by a mob on the outskirts of Agartala while he had gone to cover an incident of a clash between CPI(M) and IPFT supporters.