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A journalist with ABP News and ABP Ganga was found dead on an Uttar Pradesh road, his clothes torn and his face bearing multiple injuries, a day after he had written to police expressing fear that the liquor mafia would “harm” him and seeking protection.
Police initially said that Sulabh Srivastava, 42, died in an accident after falling off his motorbike when it skidded on a rain-soaked road in Pratapgarh town late on Sunday night and hit a hand pump.
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On Monday, the police registered a case of murder and criminal intimidation against unknown persons on the basis of a written complaint from Renuka Srivastava, Sulabh’s wife, said Surendra Dwivedi, additional superintendent of police of Pratapgarh district.
Sulabh Srivastava: Just a day before his death he wrote to police saying he felt threatened
Lucknow:
A television journalist based in Uttar Pradesh s Pratapgarh district died Sunday night in what the police have called a motorcycle accident .
Just a day before his death, Sulabh Shrivastava, who worked for ABP News and its regional arm, ABP Ganga, wrote to senior police officials saying he felt threatened following his recent reportage of liquor mafias in 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, said in a statement.