Sahadev Dey
Sri Vijaya Puram/Geneva: An online journalist, Sahadev Dey, was suspected killed at the Diglipur area of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands on March 29, 2025.
Local media in Post Blair reported that 35-year-old Dey, who used to run a local news channel ‘Republic Andaman’, went missing on Saturday, March 29, 2025, evening from the Diglipur fish market. His charred body was recovered from a field in Deshbandhu Nagar on Tuesday, April 1.
The police said, Dey was targeted for personal feuds and four individuals (namely Gangaiah, who runs a restaurant cum bar in Diglipur, two of his staff members Ramesh and Rama Subramanian along with Bitika Mallik, a local woman) are already arrested in connection with the murder.
Geneva-based Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, expressed serious concern over the suspected killing of and demanded a fair probe to identify the probable culprits and punish them under the law.
“PEC learns that Sahadev Dey was vocal against illegal timber smuggling, soil cutting and hooch racket and gambling in his locality. Hence, we expect a high-level probe to unearth the perpetrators of the brutal crime. Being a journalist, Dey might have earned enmity from various elements, and that should be brought to the public domain. We also hope that the bereaved family will be compensated by the relevant authorities,” said Blaise Lempen, president of PEC.
Speaking to the PEC’s south and southeast Asia representative, Nava Thakuria, from Sri Vijaya Puram (formerly Post Blair), local journalists claimed that Dey’s family members and various civil society groups were offended by the police version where his personal life (read an extramarital affair with the local lady) was dragged into the episode and they now demand a impartial probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation over the matter.
The police authority in Sri Vijaya Puram apprehended that the journalist was targeted by the concerned individuals for very personal enmities.
Thakuria informed that Dey becomes the third journalist to be killed in India since January 1, 2025 (46th media victim across the globe) till date.
– global bihari bureau
