Ahmedabad: A senior journalist named Kishore Dave was found dead on Monday night, lying in a pool of blood in his office in the Saurashtra region of Gujarat.
Mr Dave, who was the bureau chief of a Gujarati newspaper called 'Jai Hind' in the town of Junagadh, was stabbed repeatedly in the chest around 9 pm, while he was writing a story, said police sources. He was alone when he was attacked; there are no security cameras at the small one-room office. An office assistant found his body.
"It appears that personal enmity could be a reason behind the murder," a senior police officer said, asking not to be named.
The journalist's family say that the politician's son, a local doctor named Bhavesh Suraj, held Mr Dave responsible after a few local papers wrote about a case of alleged sexual harassment involving him.
Mr Dave, who was the bureau chief of a Gujarati newspaper called 'Jai Hind' in the town of Junagadh, was stabbed repeatedly in the chest around 9 pm, while he was writing a story, said police sources. He was alone when he was attacked; there are no security cameras at the small one-room office. An office assistant found his body.
"It appears that personal enmity could be a reason behind the murder," a senior police officer said, asking not to be named.
The journalist's family say that the politician's son, a local doctor named Bhavesh Suraj, held Mr Dave responsible after a few local papers wrote about a case of alleged sexual harassment involving him.
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