In yet another brutal attack allegedly by the fuel mafia, a journalist of North Tripura district identified as Suman Debnath was injured on Monday night while he was covering a story related to illegal business of petrol at Dharmangar.
According to report, a gang at North Tripura district had been running parallel oil business between Assam and Tripura, following which the journalist Suman Debnath made several stories earlier, which perhaps made the concerned police administration take legal action against the accused mafias.
The attack took place on Monday night while Suman was asked to reach a spot at Dharmanagar town to cover related story, where he was brutally attacked allegedly by a mafia identified as Simin Mia and Mihir Deb, after he reached the spot.
Several stories were earlier covered and published on oil theft from the depot and tanker by the gang, which involved IOCL staff, police and some officers of civil administration.
Both the accused escaped when people gathered hearing Suman's cries for help. People found the young journo lying in a pool of blood on the street.
He was immediately shifted to a hospital. The doctors attending him said, though the attackers attempted to cut off his respiratory track, the weapon could injure his vocal cords only. The scribe was, however, out of danger, the doctors informed.
Police launched a massive hunt to grab the absconding perpetrators but was unable to trace them till the writing of this report. The inter-state border check post of Assam and Mizoram had been alerted while BSF was asked to be vigilant, police said.
Festival of democracy enters second leg with 88 Lok Sabha seats across India set to vote
While 89 constituencies were slated to go to polls in the second phase, as per the initial announcement by the Election Commission, voting in Madhya Pradesh's Betul was advanced to the third phase on May 7 following the death of the BSP candidate in the fray.
Tripura BJP issues show-cause notice to party leader for slamming TMP chief Pradyot Debbarma
A day before the second phase of Lok Sabha elections, the ruling BJP in Tripura on Thursday served a show cause-notice to one of the party’s Vice-Presidents, Patal Kanya Jamatia, who accused Tipra Motha Party (TMP) chief Pradyot Bikram Manikya Debbarma of “spreading hatred” among tribals and non-tribals in the state.
PM Modi ups ante against Congress, says Rajiv Gandhi abolished inheritance law to 'save own interests'
Upping the ante against the Congress on the 'inheritance tax' issue, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday launched another scathing attack on the grand old party, saying it was former PM Rajiv Gandhi who abolished the inheritance law "to save their own interests" after the demise of his mother Indira Gandhi.
Multi-cornered contest in Tripura East LS seat going to polls on Friday
A multi-cornered contest will be witnessed in the Tripura East Lok Sabha seat, which goes to the polls in the second phase of the 7-phase parliamentary elections on Friday.
Credit card data of 17K ICICI Bank users exposed; bank blocks cards, assures compensation
After credit card data of at least 17,000 new ICICI Bank customers was exposed and reached "wrong users", the bank said on Thursday that it has blocked these cards and is issuing new ones to the customers.
TRIPURA: BSF jawan on election duty dies after rifle accidently goes off
In a tragic incident amid the preparation for the second phase of polling in Tripura, a Border Security Force (BSF) jawan, who was engaged in election duty died after his rifle went off accidentally.
13.96 lakh voters to cast vote in 1664 Polling stations tomorrow
Although nine candidates are in the fray in the Tripura East Lok Sabha constituency, the main battle will be mainly between BJP candidate Kirit Singh Debbarma and CPIM candidate Rajendra Reang.
CM leads campaign with vigor, Completes 30 rallies, 18 road shows covering over 6,000 km
Chief Minister Prof. Dr. Manik Saha vigorously campaigned for BJP candidates in the Lok Sabha elections & Bidhan Sabha by-election, participating in 30 public rallies, 18 road shows, and 7 padyatras.