Sudip Datta Bhowmik was a journalist with Syandan Patrika and a local TV channel (File)
A journalist was shot dead on Tuesday by a Tripura State Rifles (TSR) trooper during an altercation in Bodhjung Nagar in Tripura, police said.
"Tapan Debbarma, the bodyguard of the TSR's Second Battalion Commandant, opened fire killing Sudip Datta Bhowmik on the spot," a police officer said.
The body of Mr Bhowmik, a reporter of Syandan Patrika and local television channel Venguard, was brought to Gobinda Ballav Panth Medical College and Hospital for postmortem.
On September 20, a television journalist,
Santanu Bhowmik, 28, was killed allegedly by some activists of a party in Mandai, 35 km from here.