Updated: June 14, 2021 11:06:32 am
A tv journalist based mostly in Uttar Pradesh’s Pratapgarh district was discovered lifeless beneath mysterious circumstances on Sunday night time.
Just a day earlier than his loss of life, Sulabh Srivastava, who labored for ABP News and ABP Ganga, wrote to the Uttar Pradesh Police that he felt threatened after his latest report of liquor mafias within the district. Seeking safety, Srivastava had stated that he was knowledgeable by sources that the liquor mafia was offended with him after the publication of his report and needed to hurt him or his household.
However, police stated the journalist died in a “motorcycle accident”.
Video byte given by Additional Superintendent of Police East Pratapgarh in reference to the loss of life of a journalist of ABP News in a street accident close to Katra intersection of Police Station Kotwali Nagar.@ to the police @dgpup @ADGZonPrayagraj @irangealld ashtakashtomarips pic.twitter.com/oTGyZdok0i
— PRATAPGARH POLICE (@pratapgarhpol) 13 June 2021
“Srivastava was returning on his motorcycle at around 11 pm on Sunday after media coverage. He fell from his motorcycle near a brick kiln. Some laborers picked him up from the road and then used his phone to call his friends. He was taken to the district hospital where doctors declared him brought dead,” Pratapgarh police stated in a press release.
Police additionally stated that preliminary investigation revealed that Srivastava’s “bike fell after hitting a hand pump on the side of the road.” The police additionally stated that they’re probing the matter from different angles as properly.
Meanwhile, Congress chief Priyanka Gandhi Vadra hit out at Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s authorities, saying “liquor mafia has killed from Aligarh to Pratapgarh but the UP government is silent (sic)”. He requested in a tweet, does the UP authorities, which nurtures ‘Jungle Raj’, have any reply to the tears of the members of the family of journalist Sulabh Srivastava?
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
