Killings – Journalists

Ten days after he went missing, the body of journalist Rajeev Pratap Singh was recovered from a barrage in Uttarakhand’s Uttarkashi district on Sunday.

Superintendent of Police Sarita Dobhal said the postmortem report was awaited to confirm the cause of death. “Prima facie, his car fell into a gorge and into the river, which had swelled during the time of the incident. We had found CCTV footage from a few minutes before the incident, showing him alone in the car,” she told The Indian Express.

Pratap, 36, an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, ran a Facebook page called Delhi Uttarakhand Live, which focused on local issues. His family has alleged that he had received multiple threats to take down his recent reports.