A 22-year-old journalist’s body was found on a railway track in Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao district, PTI reported on Friday. A case was filed ag...
A 22-year-old journalist’s body was found on a railway track in Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao district, PTI reported on Friday. A case was filed against a sub-inspector and a constable after the journalist’s family alleged that they had murdered him.
Sub-Inspector Sunita Chaurasia, her driver Amar Singh and the constable were charged under Section 302 (murder) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code for the death of Suraj Pandey, according to The Hindu. The police have not yet made any arrests in the case.
The police, however, said it seemed like Pandey had died by suicide. Unnao Superintendent of Police Sureshrao A Kulkarni told the newspaper that the journalist’s post-mortem report showed he was hit by a train. He added that the police will investigate all angles in the case thoroughly.
The journalist’s uncle told The Hindu that Pandey left home on Thursday morning and his phone became unreachable soon after. He added that family got to know about his death in the evening. “He has been murdered,” Pandey’s uncle alleged. “Someone had come to take him somewhere. He also said that if the police look at CCTV footage, they will find out who murdered his nephew.
The police said that Pandey’s phone records showed...
