RAIPUR: Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai on Tuesday announced an aid of Rs 10 lakh to the kin of journalist Mukesh Chandrakar, who was murdered in Bijapur district earlier this month.Talking to reporters at the helipad in Police Lines, Sai said a building will be constructed for scribes and named after the slain journalist.Freelance journalist Mukesh Chandrakar (33) went missing on January 1. His body was found on January 3 in a septic tank on a property owned by road contractor Suresh Chandrakar at Chattanpara Basti in Bijapur town.Suresh Chandrakar, the prime accused, was arrested from Hyderabad on January 5, while his brothers Ritesh and Dinesh and supervisor Mahendra Ramteke were arrested earlier.Sai said, “The family of the deceased journalist will be given Rs 10 lakh assistance. A building will be constructed for journalists, and it will be named after him.”The special investigation team probing the case has said the accused, Suresh Chandrakar, the slain journalist’s relative, was enraged after the latter published a news report highlighting alleged corruption in his road construction work in Bijapur.
Source link
छत्तीसगढ़ में राज्य पुनर्वास नीति के तहत सात माओवादी कार्यकर्ताओं में से चार महिलाओं के साथ आत्मसमर्पण कर दिया गया है।
रायपुर: पुलिस अधिकारियों ने शनिवार को बताया कि प्रतिबंधित सीपीआई (माओवादी) के उदंती क्षेत्रीय समिति के एक सक्रिय…
