Deep grief and angst over yet another brutal assassination
Shillong, 21st September, 2017
The Shillong Press Club expresses deep grief and angst over yet another brutal assassination of a comrade.
Young Shantanu Bhowmik working with Din Raat channel in Agartala was brutally murdered by a rowdy mob allegedly pledging allegiance to the Indigenous Peoples’ Front of Tripura (IPFT) while he was discharging his professional duties in covering an agitation programme of this very same organisation.
While extending deepest sympathies to the loved ones of late Shantanu, the Shillong Press Club iterates its demand that such crimes against members of the fourth estate be addressed in the strongest of measures by the powers that be at the earliest.
The Shillong Press Club also seeks exemplary punishment to the four IPFT members arrested by Tripura police in this connection and exhorts all members of the journalist fraternity to keep the flag flying by not cowing down to cowards and criminals but rather continue to fulfil the onerous responsibility bestowed upon them as members of the fourth estate.
LET US KEEP ON TRAVELLING OUR CHOSEN PATH WITHOUT FEAR OR FERVOUR.
David Laitphlang,
President,
Shillong Press Club
* This Press Release was sent to e-pao.net by David Laitphlang, President, Shillong Press Club who can be contacted at davidlaitphlang(AT)gmail(DOT)com
This Press Release was posted on September 22 2017
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