No punishment to Murderers of Indian journalists; laggs behind in Impunity index- CPJ reports

On Oct 31, 2018

NP NEWS 24 ONLINE– The time is a proof since the early times that a lot of journalists have lost their lives due to people’s grudges, not only been killed but their murders have been assassinated by their culprits. But, the Indian authorities have always lacked in doing justice by punishing the criminals.

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And now according to CPJ reports, India is at the 14th position on CPJ’s Global Impunity index while Somalia has been ranked on top of the list followed by other countries.

India is lagging much behind with a total of 18 cases pending to be resolved related to murder of journalists.

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Each year on an average only one journalist gets a Pulitzer prize which is awarded to the journalists for their performance and one hundred get shot out of a conspiracy.

According to reports, 93% of journalists who killed every year are males and are locals whereas 7% are females and are foreign correspondents. And, out of 100%, only 10% cases of murder of journalists are solved.

This index has once again proved that the lives of journalists are in danger specially in India.

These are the journalists who lost their lives in the last few years:

1. 50-year old Shujaat Bukhari died on 14 June, 2018 when he was shot dead after he left for Iftaar. Shujaat Bukhari was a Kashmir based reporter and editor of Rising Kashmir newspaper.

After bukhari’s death, people were in great shock. Bukhari had already been attacked a couple of times before his death and finally paid the price of promoting peace.

Journalist of famous hindi newspaper ‘Dainik Bhaskar’ Naveen Nischal was crushed to a death by a SUV in Bihar on 25 March, 2018 Naveen and his colleague were returning from a Ram Navami march when they were hit by Scorpio which reportedly belonged to former Panchayat Mukhiya Ahmed Ali alias Harsu.
Reportedly, the night when Nischal lost his life, he had an argument with Harsu the same night.
3. Sudip Dutta Bhaumik, a reporter of Bengali language newspaper ‘Syandan Patrika’ who lost his life mysteriously on 21 November, 2017 in the North-Eastern state of Tripura, India by a police officer of the Tripura State Riffles during an altercation. His death occurred nearly two months after the murder of young television journalist Santanu Bhowmik at Mandwai.
Many more journalists like Gauri Lankesh, Kishore Dave and many others.
The list is never-ending as such scenario, fears the hearts of all the parents and family members who have their children and closed ones into the field of journalism. What is the future of our country in which the reporters and journalists who fight for the right, for the society are losing their lives? When will our country do justice to them by giving the culprits a proper punishment.