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Journalist murdered in Assam
Ref: http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/detailsnew.asp?id=sep0510/state04
Hojai, Assam

Bimala Prasad Talukdar, a freelance journalist of Hojai area, was found murdered near Rampur Basti, here at around 7.30 pm today. The 40-year-old journalist was killed with a sharp weapon wounding his neck.

His body was recovered by police and civil administration officials from near a water body in an inside gully of the Rampur Basti area. Talukdar�s close associates are found absconding by investigating officers. Three others have been detained in this connection.

National Federation of Newspaper Employees (India) has expressed shock and dismay at the brutal killing of a freelance journalist based in Hojai, Assam on September 4 (Saturday). Bimala Prasad Talukder, 70, was killed by miscreants at Rampur under Hojai
police station in Nagaon district and his wounded body was found by 9 pm, reported the Guwahati based satellite news channels.
NFNE secretary (eastern zone) Nava Thakuria has condemned the killing and demanded a high level enquiry into the incident. He added, �We have been forced to add another name in the list of over 20 journalist-victims, whom we lost in the last two decades in Assam.�

Talukder, also known as a social worker, fought Lok Sabha election in 2009 from Nagaon parliamentary constituency as an independent candidate.