Within a span of 24 hours, two journalists have been gunned down - one in the Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled Jharkhand and the other in Bihar, which has a Janata Dal United-Rashtriya Janata Dal-Congress government.
The Jharkhand journalist Akhilesh Pratap Singh alias Indradev, who worked for Hindi news channel Taaza TV, was killed in Chatra district late on Thursday night while Rajdeo Ranjan, Siwan district chief of Hindi daily "Hindustan", was murdered on Friday evening.
Ranjan was shot at when he was going on his motorcycle near the fruit market in the town at around 7:45 pm on Friday, Superintendent of Police Saurabh Kumar Sah said.
The bullets hit Ranjan on the head and neck, and he died on the way to hospital. Police said the motive behind the murder was yet to be ascertained.
A day earlier, Singh was gunned down by unidentified people at Dewaria in Chatra district, police said.
Singh was attacked near panchayat secretariat of the village Thursday night. A bandh was also observed in Chatra town on Friday in protest against the killing.
Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das condemned the incident and asked Director General of Police DK Pandey to arrest the assailants at the earliest.
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