Gauri Lankesh murder: Here’s a list of writers and journalists killed in recent years

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Gauri Lankesh murder: Here’s a list of writers and journalists killed in recent years

Gauri Lankesh murder: A 2015 report said India is Asia’s deadliest country for media personnel, ahead of both Pakistan and Afghanistan.

INDIA Updated: Sep 06, 2017 14:52 IST
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Combination image of MM Kalburgi (centre), Govind Pansare (right) and Narendra Dabholkar (left).
Combination image of MM Kalburgi (centre), Govind Pansare (right) and Narendra Dabholkar (left).

Critics have raised questions on the safety of writers and journalists against after the killing of senior Kannada journalist Gauri Lankesh in Bengaluru on Tuesday. Lankesh called herself an ‘activist-journalist’ and was an outspoken critic of right-wing Hindutva politics.

Lankesh’s death is being counted as the latest in a string of murders of ‘rationalist’ writers, including MM Kalburgi, Govind Pansare and Narendra Dabholkar.

Here’s a list of some of the writers and journalists killed in recent years:

MM Kalburgi

The 77-year-old outspoken rationalist was killed in a manner similar to Lankesh. He fell to the bullets of two unidentified men at his residence in Dharwad, Karnataka in September 2015. The incident sent shock waves across the Kannada literary world and elsewhere in Karnataka.

Govind Pansare

Leftist leader and a prominent activist and rationalist, Govind Pansare was shot dead by two unidentified persons in February 2014 when he was returning home from his morning walk in Kolhapur. He died in Mumbai on February 20. Sanatan Sanstha activist Samir Gaikwad was arrested in connection with the murder, and later granted bail.

Narendra Dabholkar

On August 20, 2013, Dabholkar, a prominent anti-superstition crusader, was allegedly gunned down by two bike-borne men during his morning walk in Pune.

According to a CBI charge sheet filed in September last year, Akolkar and Pawar, two members of the right-wing organisation Sanatan Sanstha, gunned down the rationalist. In June 2014, the case was handed over to the CBI after the Pune police failed to make any headway.

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Ranjan Rajdeo

Ranjan, a journalist with Hindi daily Hindustan, was shot from close range by assailants on a motorcycle in May last year. He headed the paper’s bureau in Siwan, Bihar and had written extensively on the case involving Shrikant Bharti – an aide of BJP MP Om Prakash Yadav – who was shot dead in 2014.

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Fingers were pointed towards incarcerated Shahabuddin. In jail since 2005, the two-time MLA and four-time MP from Siwan, Shahabuddin fought on Rashtriya Janata Dal and Janata Dal tickets until he was barred from contesting elections.

The crime came a day after a Hindi television journalist was shot dead in Jharkhand. Akhilesh Pratap worked for Taza TV, a local Hindi news channel.

Sai Reddy

In December 2013, assailants stabbed Sai Reddy (51), a reporter for the Hindi newspaper Deshbandhu, as he left a market in Basaguda village in Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh. He died as he was being transported to the hospital.

He was arrested and charged for his alleged connection with Maoists, but was released on bail in 2008. Police said they suspected Maoists were behind the fatal attack.

Jagendra Singh

A freelance journalist died in June 2015 from burn injuries after a police raid at his residence in Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh. Before his death, Singh alleged cops had barged into his house and set him on fire. He also accused Samajwadi Party leader Rammurti Singh Verma of ‘unleashing’ terror for writing against him. Singh published investigative reports and comments against the minister on social media, an NDTV report said.

However, a month after the incident, Singh’s son gave a clean chit to Verma and said his father had immolated himself.

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List of journalists killed in India

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This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
DateNameMedia outletPlaceSummaryReferences
27 February 1992Bakshi Tirath SinghHind SamacharDhuri, Punjab[1]
27 February 1999Shivani BhatnagarThe Indian ExpressNew Delhi[2]
13 March 1999Irfan HussainOutlookNew Delhi[3]
10 October 1999N. A. LalruhluShanManipur[4]
18 March 2000Adhir RaiFreelanceDeoghar, Jharkhand[5]
31 July 2000V. SelvarajNakkeeranPerambalur, Tamil Nadu[6]
20 August 2000Thounaojam Brajamani SinghManipur NewsImphal, Manipur[7]
21 November 2002Ram Chander ChhatrapatiPoora SachSirsa, Haryana[8]
7 September 2013Rajesh VermaIBN7Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh[9]
6 December 2013Sai ReddyDeshbandhuBijapur district[10]
27 May 2014Tarun Kumar AcharyaSambad and Kanak TVKhallikote, Ganjam district, Odisha[11][12]
26 November 2014M. V. N. ShankarAndhra PrabhaChilakaluripet, Andhra Pradesh[13]
8 June 2015Jagendra SinghFreelanceShahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh[14][15]
20 June 2015Sandeep KothariFreelanceKatangi, Balaghat district, Madhya Pradesh[16]
13 August 2015Sanjay Pathak ?Faridpur district, Uttar Pradesh[17][18]
3 October 2015Hemant Yadav ?Chandauli district, Uttar Pradesh[17]
13 May 2016Rajdev RanjanHindustanSiwan, Bihar[19]
5 September 2017Gauri LankeshGauri Lankesh PatrikeBengaluru, Karnataka[20]

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References[edit]

  1. Jump up^ "Bakshi Tirath Singh, Hind Samachar, February 27, 1992, in Dhuri, India". Committee to Protect Journalists. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
  2. Jump up^ "Shivani Bhatnagar, Indian Express, January 23, 1999, in New Delhi, India". Committee to Protect Journalists. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
  3. Jump up^ "Irfan Hussain, Outlook, March 13, 1999, in New Delhi, India". Committee to Protect Journalists. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
  4. Jump up^ "N.A. Lalruhlu, Shan, October 10, 1999, in Manipur, India". Committee to Protect Journalists. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
  5. Jump up^ "Adhir Rai, Freelancer, March 18, 2000, in Deoghar, Jharkand, India". Committee to Protect Journalists. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
  6. Jump up^ "V. Selvaraj, Nakkeeran, July 31, 2000, in Perambalur, Tamil Nadu, India". Committee to Protect Journalists. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
  7. Jump up^ "Thounaojam Brajamani Singh, Manipur News, August 20, 2000, in Imphal, Manipur, India". Committee to Protect Journalists. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
  8. Jump up^ The man who exposed Dera chief paid with his life
  9. Jump up^ Siddiqui, Pervez Iqbal (September 9, 2013). "Slain journalists specifically targeted?". The Times of India.
  10. Jump up^ "Sai Reddy, Deshbandhu, December 6, 2013, in Bijapur District, India". Committee to Protect Journalists. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
  11. Jump up^ "Tarun Kumar Acharya, Kanak TV, Sambad May 27, 2014, in Odisha, India". Committee to Protect Journalists. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
  12. Jump up^ "Two held for murder of journalist Tarun Acharya". The Financial Express. 9 June 2014. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
  13. Jump up^ "MVN Shankar, Andhra Prabha, November 26, 2014, in Andhra Pradesh, India". Committee to Protect Journalists. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
  14. Jump up^ "Indian Journalist Who Linked Official to Graft Dies". The New York Times. 11 June 2015. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
  15. Jump up^ "Jagendra Singh, Freelance, June 8, 2015, in Shahjahanpur district, Uttar Pradesh, India". Committee to Protect Journalists. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
  16. Jump up^ "Another journalist killed in Maharashtra: Sandeep Kothari was waging war against illegal mining in MP". Firstpost. 22 June 2015. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  17. ^ Jump up to:a b "TV journalist shot dead in UP, third incident in four months". The Indian Express. 3 October 2015. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
  18. Jump up^ "Local Hindi daily journalist murdered in UP, one arrested". Hindustan Times. 14 August 2015. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
  19. Jump up^ "Three detained for murder of Bihar journalist Rajdev Ranjan". Indian Express. May 14, 2016.
  20. Jump up^ "Journalist Gauri Lankesh shot dead in Bengaluru". The Hindu. Retrieved 2017-09-05.


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Gauri Lankesh is the 13th journalist murdered by intolerant cowardsRead the list

Senior journalist Gauri Lankesh shot dead in Bengaluru
Nagpur: Media is supposed to be the fourth, and some say the most significant pillar of Democracy. If there was to be no free press who would expose wrong doings of political leaders, bureaucrats, Governments, and even judiciary?

All the people mentioned below were killed in cold blood for work that they were carrying out not for personal gratification, but for the benefit of general populace. They were the brave warriors, armed only with their pens or key boards, and courage of conviction, who were taking on the mighty and the powerful.

When such people are sought to be silenced, it is a sure sign that the nation is progressing fast towards becoming a Banana Republic where opposition will not be brooked.

  1. 13th May 2016. Siwan, Bihar. This happened on 13th May 2016.Siwan, a disrict town of Bihar saw Dainik Hindustan journalist Rajdev Ranjan being gunned down by some assailants as he was returning from his office in the evening. CBI is investigating the case.
  2. May 2015, Jhabua, M.P. Akshay Singh, Special correspondent of Aaj Tak who had gone to investigate the Vyapam case died suddenly in mysterious circumstances. It happened in Meghnagar near Jhabua.
  3. June 2015, Balaghat, M.P. Sandeep Kothari, a journalist who was abducted in Balaghat district was burnt alive. His body was found in a farm near Wardha in Maharashtra.
  4. 2015, Shahjahanpur in UP. Journalist Jogendra Singh was also burnt alive. His crime? Writing on Facebook against UP Minister Rammurthy Verma.
  5. 2013. Muzzapharnagar, UP. During the riots here Network 18 Reporter Rajesh Verma was killed by shooting.
  6. 26th November 2014. A.P. Senior journalist of the state M.V.N. Shankar was killed. He was writing against the Oil Mafia in the state.
  7. 27th May 2014, Odisha. Stringer Tarun Kumar working for a local TV channel was killed brutally.
  8. Sai Reddy of Chatisgarh who was active in Bijapur, a Naxal affected area, was shot by some men.
  9. 20th August, 2013, Pune Journalist, Writer and Activist Narendra Dabholkar, working against Superstition was shot and killed in front of a temple while on morning walk.
  10. 1st March 2012. Rewa, M.P. Media Raj Reporter Rajesh Mishra was killed for exposing scam happening in local schools.
  11. 11th June 2011. Mumbai. Famous Mid Day Crime Reporter Jyotirmay Dey was killed. Probably at behest of underworld who he was exposing.
  12. 21st November 2002. Sirsa, Haryana. Journalist Ramchandra Chatrapati who published the rape victims letter, about happenings at Dera Sachcha by chief Gurmeet Ram Raheem was killed in his own office.
  13. Today a senior lady journalist Gauri Shankar has been shot seven times in her own compound in the metro city of Bangalore.



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