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".
