A senior police officers mentioned he had requested native cops to judge the menace talked about within the letter
Lucknow:
A tv journalist based mostly in Uttar Pradesh’s Pratapgarh district died Sunday night time in what the police have known as a “motorcycle accident”.
Just a day earlier than his loss of life, Sulabh Shrivastava, who labored for ABP News and its regional arm, ABP Ganga, wrote to senior police officers saying he felt threatened following his current reportage of liquor mafias within the district.
“Mr Shrivastava was returning on his motorcycle after media coverage, at around 11 pm at night on Sunday. He fell from his motorcycle near a brick kiln. Some labourers lifted him from the road and then used his phone to call his friends, and they called an ambulance too. He was taken to the district hospital where the doctors declared him dead,” Surendra Dwivedi, a senior police official in Pratapgarh, mentioned in an announcement.
“Initial investigations have revealed he was alone on his bike and fell after his bike collided with a handpump by the road. We are investigating other angles too,” Mr Dwivedi mentioned within the assertion.
{A photograph} of the physique – taken on the scene of the “accident” – exhibits the journalist mendacity on the bottom with what seem like accidents to his face. His garments appear to have been taken off – his shirt has been nearly totally eliminated and his trousers unbuttoned and pulled down.
Sulabh Shrivastava had written to senior UP Police officers the day earlier than his loss of life
The letter Mr Shrivastava reportedly wrote to the police – telling them he feared for his life – has now surfaced on social media and been tweeted by senior journalists from his former channel.
“A report of mine against the liquor mafia in the district had run on the news portal run by my channel on June 9. Since then there has been a lot of buzz about this report. When I leave my home I feel as if someone is following me… I have heard through my sources the liquor mafia is unhappy with my reporting and can harm me. My family is also very worried,” Mr Shrivastava had mentioned in that letter.
Prem Prakash, a senior police official from the world, advised ABP News in a phone-in interview he had been conscious of the letter and had instructed native officers to judge the menace.
Mr Shrivastava’s loss of life has been slammed by the opposition Congress, with Priyanka Gandhi Vadra hitting out at Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and his authorities.
The liquor mafia has killed from Aligarh to Pratapgarh however the UP authorities is silent. Journalists are asking harmful questions to reveal the reality. The authorities is asleep,” she tweeted.
शराब माफिया अलीगढ़ से प्रतापगढ़ तक:पूरे प्रदेश में मौत का तांडव करें।
उप्र सरकार चुप।
पत्रकार सच्चाई उजागर करे, प्रशासन को खतरे के प्रति आगाह करे।
सरकार सोई है।
क्या जंगलराज को पालने-पोषने वाली उप्र सरकार के पास पत्रकार सुलभ श्रीवास्तव जी के परिजनों के आंसुओं का कोई जवाब है?
— Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (@priyankagandhi) June 14, 2021
“Does the UP authorities, which nurtures ‘jungle raj’, have any reply to the tears of the members of the family of journalist Sulabh Srivastava?” Ms Gandhi Vadra requested.
