UP Journalist Set On Fire With Sanitiser, Dies, 3 Arrested: Cops | Read
Three men, including the son of a village pradhan, have been arrested for allegedly killing a 37-year-old journalist and his friend in Balrampur district, just 160 kilometres from state capital Lucknow last week. On November 27, Rakesh Singh Nirbhik, who used to write for a Lucknow-based newspaper Rashtriya Swaroop, along with friend Pintu Sahu, 34, were found with severe burn injuries inside the journalist's Kalwari village residence. While Mr Sahu had already died, Mr Nirbhik was rushed to a Lucknow hospital where he died a few hours later.
