Police in India arrested on Monday a suspended police officer and his brother who are believed to have brutally stabbed to death a journalist with a screwdriver after he discovered the cop’s involvement in a gambling and tobacco smuggling ring.
The Times of India reported that the journalist, named Chennakesavulu, was murdered in the late hours of Sunday in the southeastern state of Andhra Pardesh. He was 35.
Following Chennakesavulu’s recent exposé, police constable Venkata Subbaiah was suspended from duty and allegedly developed a personal grudge against the reporter.
After calling Chennakesavulu to meet him to settle their dispute, Subbaiah and his brother Nani attacked him with a screwdriver and fled the scene.
The severely bleeding reporter was dead before he reached the hospital.
The New York-based press freedom watchdog, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), demanded a thorough investigation into the murder.
