India press watchdog demands journalist murder probe


Freelance journalist Mukesh Chandrakar had reported widely on corruption and a decades-old Maoist insurgency. - The Statesman/ANN

NEW DELHI - India's media watchdog has demanded a thorough investigation after a journalist's battered body was found stuffed in a septic tank covered with concrete.

Mukesh Chandrakar, 28, had reported widely on corruption and a decades-old Maoist insurgency in India's central Chhattisgarh state, and ran a popular YouTube channel "Bastar Junction".

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