A 35-year-old year-old journalist, Naveen Gupta, was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Kanpur’s Bilhaur on Thursday, police said. Gupta, a contributor for the leading Hindi daily Hindustan, is survived by his wife and a four-year-old son. Gupta was shot dead at about 7 pm when he had gone out to attend nature’s call behind his brother’s garments shop. His brother and other people rushed out on hearing gun shots and found Gupta’s body lying in a pool of blood. Director general of police Sulkhan Singh has asked Kanpur police to solve the murder and arrest the perpetrators at the earliest.

Source: Hindustan Times November 30, 2017 14:44 UTC