The victim was riding a scooter with his 9-year-old son when three assailants approached and opened fire at him on Hospital Road in Sarangpur, Rajgarh district
Team Clarion
NEW DELHI — Salman Ali, a 35-year-old journalist working for Dastak News was shot dead from point-blank range in Madhya Pradesh’s Rajgarh district on Tuesday. The attack occurred in front of his minor son.
Ali was riding a scooter with his 9-year-old son when three assailants approached and opened fire at him, according to the police. The incident took place on Hospital Road in Sarangpur, Rajgarh district.
Ali was seriously injured in the attack. He was rushed to a hospital but was pronounced dead upon arrival at the medical facility.
Tuesday’s attack marks the second time Ali has been targeted in the past year.
Sarangpur police station in-charge Akanksha Haada stated, “We have information about the suspected killers, and they will be nabbed soon.”
A case has been registered under Section 103 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), and further investigations are underway. The community and press organisations are calling for a thorough investigation and greater protection for journalists in the area.
In a post on X platform, journalist Zakir Ali Tyagi said Salman Ali’s house was bulldozed last year. “I became friends with journalist Salman Ali, a resident of Rajgarh in Madhya Pradesh, 2 years ago when he was framed in a fake case and a bulldozer was being run on his house,” he said.
Tyagi said in 2022 Ali was framed in a fake case of a woman. Later, the woman gave an affidavit in the court claiming she was illiterate and her husband made her put her thumb impression on a blank paper. She claimed that the allegations that her husband made against Salman in her name were not true.
“By the time Salman got relief from that case, the administration had already bulldozed his grandfather’s house because Salman was an accused. The woman in whose name he was framed was a Hindu and Salman was a Muslim!” the post said.
