The international organization for media safety and rights, Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), is concerned over the killing of Indian journalist V Jaganmohan Reddy, who was fatally hacked on Tuesday while on a morning stroll in the Venkatagiri Kotain area of Andhra Pradesh’s Chittoor district. According to local media, Jaganmohan (40) was immediately killed after being attacked by a bunch of criminals brandishing deadly weapons. Afterwards, the scribe for the ABN Andhra Jyothy daily was sent to the government hospital in Palamaneru for an autopsy.
Various journo-bodies organized protest demonstrations at Tirupati Press Club, where Indian Journalists Union (IJU) claimed that Jaganmohan was attacked just a few days after he reported on sandalwood smugglers in the locality. The national journo-body also demanded to formulate a strict policy to safeguard the working journalists and the press freedom in general.
“PEC condemns the murder of Telugu daily journalist on 28 April and urges the State government to thoroughly investigate the motive behind the killing,” said Blaise Lempen, president of PEC (pressemblem.ch), adding that the authorities must nab the culprits to punish them under the law. He also stated that Jaganmohan Reddy became the first media victim in India this year and 26th across the world.
Jaganmohan was killed in Chittoor, the home district of AP chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu, according to PEC’s south and southeast Asian representative, Nava Thakuria. The victim scribe abandoned his two kids and wife. Mukesh Chandrakar, Raghavendra Vajpayee, Sahadev Dey, Dharmendra Singh Chauhan, Naresh Kumar, and Rajeev Pratap Singh were among the six journalists killed by attackers in India last year.
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