Attacked – Journalists

Taking strong exception in inordinate delays in police action on murderous attacks on Bihar’s senior journalists Sagar Suraj in Motihari on 24 May, 2023, Bharti Shramjeevi Patrakar Sangh has tweeted to Chief Minister Bihar Nitish Kumar and Chief Secretary of Bihar and demanded immediate action against the culprits involved in this incident.BSPS national general secretary Shahnawaz Hasan has said that the attitude of the Motihari police has not been cooperative. Since filing the FIR, not a single assailant has been identified or arrested.

Journalist Sagar was attacked with an iron rod while he was on the way to carry out a follow up story in his local town Motihari in Bihar along with his three other associates.

The incident followed horror, grief and anger prompting locals’ journalists to call a sit-in demanding action on May 30.
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Sagar has been under the target of land mafia, corrupt officers for his hundreds of fearless stories in The Hindustan times and Border News Mirror. His number of stories earlier published in The Hindustan Times on the murder of Mantu Sharma a criminal cum realtor forced the court to take cognizance against one and half dozen realtors active in the localities.