Motihari police has not been cooperative: BSPS

Patana (KCN) :

journalist Sagar Suraj was attacked with iron rod while he was on the way to carry out a follow up story in his local town Motihari in Bihar along with his three other associates.
The incident followed horror, grief and anger. If you’ve been threatened for doing your job, and a lot of us have, what happened in Motihari brought that terror right back to the surface. 

Taking the matter seriously, Bharti Shramjeevi Patrakar Sangh has tweeted to Chief Minister Bihar Nitish Kumar and Chief Secretary of Bihar and demanded action against the culprits. BSPS national general secretary Shahnawaz Hasan has said that the attitude of the Motihari police has not been cooperative.

What do you do when you’ve faced threats? Does it change how you work? How can you take care of yourself? The day after the attacks, I felt, in this critic situation almost all scribes will stand with me-their senior colleagues and help me to lead me up to justice.

Reason: the severity of attacks on a senior journalists like Sagar Suraj in broad day light  and his selfless contributions to the society and nation being a journalist in India’s national news paper for last 30 years.

Locals journalists staged sit-ins on 30th may, 2023 with  the rush of social activists and common citizens demanding arresting of assailants.

The recent stories “illegal vegetable markets” being operated in Chatauni localities- is supposed to be the reason behind this murderous attack on Sagar Suraj. We demanded only to crack the stories behind the attack after filling a police case against unknown miscreants. One of suspect in the case had old enmity with Sagar Suraj family but he can’t claim whether he is involved in the incident or not. Got police assurances to identify culprits, 10 days lapsed but police is still clueless.  We have found the images of assailants from CCTV footage but they are yet to be located.