GUWAHATI: The Journalists' Action Committee, an umbrella organization of scribes in Assam, on Saturday moved chief minister Tarun Gogoi seeking immediate arrest of the killer of Anil Majumdar, an editor of a local daily.
Members of the committee submitted a memorandum to the CM, accusing the government of failing to arrest the culprit and checking repeated attacks on journalists by anti-socials. They set a week's deadline for the government to arrest the culprit and sought compensation for the slain editor's family.
The journalists' association threatened to launch a massive protest programme across the state from April 2 if the government failed to identify Majumdar's killers and arrest them.
Committee secretary Prakash Mahanta said, "Both police and government machineries have miserably failed to act despite repeated attacks and killings of journalists. It is because of the government's inaction that journalists are increasingly becoming sof targets of anti-socials while performing their duties as Fourth Estate."
Unidentified gunmen on Tuesday night killed the executive editor of vernacular daily in front of his residence on Rajgarh Road. Police said a professional killer had fired at him from a 9mm pistol. Gogoi has handed over the investigation to the CID, but police are yet to identify the killer and arrest anybody in the Majumdar murder case.
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