The two arrested have been identified as local mediapersons Amrendra Kumar and Asjad Alam with whom Manish Kumar Singh was last seen in a CCTV footage. A journalist’s body was recovered by local police at a village in Bihar’s East Champaran district on Tuesday. Manish’s father Sanjay Kumar Singh, who is associated with a vernacular newspaper and is an RTI activist, had filed a police complaint of his son’s abduction on Sunday. “Land dispute and the exposes I’ve been making in my newspaper might be reasons for my son’s murder,” Mr. Singh told local mediapersons. Mr. Singh is said to be involved in a land dispute with his relatives in the village.

Source: The Hindu August 11, 2021 08:37 UTC