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GUWAHATI, 1 JUNE: National Union of Journalists (India) has expressed grave concern over delay in police action against the goons who stabbed to death three newspaper employees in Agartala on 19 May. In a statement issued from New Delhi today the NUJ strongly condemned the killings of Ranjit Chaudhary (manager), Sujit Bhattcharjee (proof reader) and Balaram Ghosh (driver) who used to work for Dainik Ganadoot, a Bengali newspaper published from Tripura. NUJ secretary general Ras Bihari categorically pointed out that the state police have not shown any initiative to arrest the culprits even after 12 days of the gory incident. He also urged Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar to order a high level probe into the incident and compensate the victims’ families. Unidentified assailants had stormed into the Ganadoot office, located in the heart of Agartala and stabbed all three workers to death. All the injured persons were taken to a nearby hospital, but attending doctors had declared them brought dead. The owner and editor of Dainik Ganadoot, Mr Sushil Chaudhary, later, claimed he had been the target of the assailants. Agartala Press Club first condemned the incident and it was followed by many local journalist bodies, including Journalist Forum Assam (JFA), All Meghalaya Journalists’ Union, Shillong Press Club, Arunachal Pradesh Union of Working Journalists and Arunachal Press Club, which urged the Tripura government to book the killers at the earliest. The JFA even organised a protest at Guwahati Press Club on 21 May and urged the Communist party-ruled government to probe and compensate the bereaved families. Other important organisations, including Editor&’s Guild of India, Reporters Without Borders, International Federation of Journalists and Committee to Protect Journalists, also expressed serious concern over the incident and asked Mr Sarkar, who also holds the Home portfolio, to take all possible steps to punish the perpetrators.
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