It is the second killing of a journalist this month. After a scribe was set on fire in Shahjehanpur in UP earlier this month, another reporter from Balaghat district in Madhya Pradesh, Sandeep Kothari, was killed and his burnt body was recovered on the night of June 20. Police suspect Kothari was kidnapped and murdered because he refused to withdraw a case he had filed in a local court against some persons for illegal mining. He was the district correspondent for some Hindi newspapers.