According to different media, on June 15, 2012 some miscreants picked up Jamal Uddin, the Kashipur (Sharsha) representative of the Daily Gramer Kagoj, from a tea stall at Kashipur Bazar and killed him by successive stabbing, and then took out his eye balls and cut off the leg veins. Recently, we have observed increased incidents of tortures on the journalists, while discharging their professional duty. In the present case, it is under aged that the deceased journalist became the target of the criminal gang and the police did not act properly in response to the General Diary filed by the deceased journalist informing them about the risk of his life. Even in the past, many journalists have been subjected to torture or killing for unveiling the misdeeds of the crime syndicates. It cannot be said that the government have arranged for adequate security of these journalists. As because, the previous cases of violence against journalists for discharging their professional duty have not been tried properly and the perpetrators remained unpunished, it has emboldened the criminals to repeat the crime.

We expect that the administration will take appropriate action against the persons responsible upon proper investigation so that such incident does not recur in future.