Journalist death unsolved mystery

IN Media Watch Briefs | 28/09/2012

Little information is available about the gruesome death of Chaitali Santra, the journalist who was killed in a parcel bomb in Kolkata on September 26. Police said she worked with a Hindi newspaper Julm se Jung but its editor Rajeev Dhingra told The Hoot that she was a freelancer and had filed only one report for his paper, six months ago. Dhingra had never even met her, he said.

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