C’garh: Scribe Killed Over ‘Coverage on Corruption’ in Bastar, One Detained

Raipur: A freelance journalist working for different visual media was killed in Bijapur district under south Bastar in Chhattisgarh allegedly for his coverage on irregularities in the implementation of a construction project by a private contractor, police said. Body of the slain journalist, Mukesh Chandrakar, was on Friday found in the water tank installed in the premises of the house of one Suresh Chandrakar, a contractor, in district headquarters of Bijapur, local additional superintendent of police Yuglander Yark told this newspaper. His brother Yukesh Chandrakar later filed a missing report in the local police station. “Preliminary investigation has suggested the exposure of corruption in a construction project may be the motive behind his murder”, the police officer said.