# List of journalists killed in India

This is a list of journalists killed in India
| No. | Date | Name | Media outlet | Place | Summary |
| 1 | 3 January 1992 | Ram Singh Biling | Azdi Awaz, Daily Ajit | Azamgarh, Punjab | Biling, a correspondent based in Amargarh for two newspapers in Punjab, namely Azdi Awaz and Daily Ajit, was reportedly apprehended by the police while traveling by bus to Jalandhar. Despite officials' denial of the arrest, it was reported that Biling, who was also a human rights activist, was seen in custody by village elders. While the police did not acknowledge his detention, there are suspicions that he died while in custody. |
| 2 | 27 February 1992 | Bakshi Tirath Singh | Hind Samachar | Dhuri, Punjab | Singh was a reporter for the Punjabi newspaper Hind Samachar, based in Dhuri, India. He was assassinated by unidentified individuals. The reason behind the attack remains uncertain. |
| 3 | 18 May 1992 | M.L. Manchanda | All India Radio | Patiala, Punjab | On 18 May 1992, M.L. Manchanda, the director of the All India Radio station located in Patiala, was abducted by members of the militant organization Babbar Khalsa. This group demanded that the electronic media adhere to a specific code of conduct, which included broadcasting in the local Punjabi language instead of Hindi. Despite negotiations for Mr. Manchanda’s release, the government failed to comply with Babbar Khalsa’s demands within the deadline set by the group. Consequently, on 27 May 1992, the militants beheaded Mr. Manchanda, a journalist, in a brutal act that shocked the nation. |
| 4 | 31 January 1993 | Bhola Nath Masoom | Hind Samachar | Rajpura | Masoom, a journalist associated with Hind Samachar and serving as the president of the Punjab and Chandigarh Journalist's Council, was fatally shot by two suspected militants in the vicinity of his residence located in Rajpura, India. The incident occurred on an unspecified date, and Masoom succumbed to his injuries on the same day. |
| 5 | 22 May 1993 | Dinesh Pathak | Resident editor of Sandesh newspaper in Baroda. | Vadodara | Raju Risaldar, accused of ordering the killing, was later shot dead by Gujarat Police in the Vadodara encounter. |
| 6 | 29 August 1994 | Ghulam Mohammad Lone | Freelance | Kangan, Kashmir | Lone, a newspaper salesman and freelance journalist who had received death threats for his coverage of troop movements in Kashmir, was shot and killed along with his seven-year-old son by a group of masked gunmen, with the Srinagar police attributing the killings to Kashmiri separatists. |
| 7 | 10 September 1995 | Mushtaq Ali | Agence France-Presse and Asian News International | Srinagar | On September 7, a letter bomb addressed to a journalist in Srinagar exploded in the hands of Ali, a photographer for Agence France-Presse and a camera operator for Asian News International, causing severe injuries that led to his death three days later. |
| 8 | 10 April 1996 | Ghulam Rasool Sheikh | Rehnuma-e-Kashmir and Saffron Times | Pampore | The death of Sheikh, the editor of Rehnuma-e-Kashmir and Saffron Times, who had reported on violence in Pampore, and whose body was found floating in Kashmir's Jhelum River, has been attributed by his family members to a militia group allegedly supported by Indian state security forces, which had reportedly kidnapped him in March. |
| 9 | 17 May 1996 | Parag Kumar Das | Asomiya Pratidin | Assam | Parag Kumar Das, editor-in-chief of the Asomiya Pratidin and a leading voice for self-rule for Assam who had continued reporting on separatist perspectives despite previous arrests, was assassinated in Guwahati while picking up his son from school; his colleagues believe that his recent interview with the leader of the separatist United Liberation Front of Assam may have led to his assassination by a splinter group, and he was also known for his work monitoring human rights abuses by the army and counterinsurgency forces against the Assamese. |
| 10 | 1 January 1996 | Altaf Ahmed Faktoo | Doordarshan TV | Srinagar | Faktoo, a journalist and news anchor for the state-owned Doordarshan television station in Srinagar, Kashmir, was assassinated by militant separatists who had previously threatened him due to his pro-government news reporting and work with the state-owned broadcast media; he was also previously kidnapped and detained by a militant group in 1994. |
| 11 | 16 March 1997 | Saidan Shafi | Doordarshan TV | Srinagar | Shafi, a reporter for Doordarshan TV, was killed in an ambush in Srinagar, Kashmir while working on two news programs, "Kashmir File" and "Eyewitness," with his personal security guard also being fatally shot; his reporting on "Kashmir File" that criticized militant Kashmiri separatists had reportedly led to threats from separatists who accused him of biased reporting. |
| 12 | 19 November 1997 | S. Gangadhara Raju | Eenadu Television | Hyderabad | A car bomb explosion outside Rama Naidu Studios in Hyderabad killed five members of a television crew, including Gangadhara Raju, an E-TV cameraman, Jagadish Babu, a producer for private channel E-TV, Srinivas Rao and S. Krishna, assistant cameramen for E-TV, and Raja Sekhar, an assistant for E-TV, along with their driver and at least 17 others, while covering the making of a film; the attack is believed to have been politically motivated, targeting the film's producer, Paritala Ravi, a former guerrilla leader and member of the governing Telugu Desam party. |
| 13 | 19 November 1997 | S. Krishna | Eenadu Television | Hyderabad | A car bomb explosion outside Rama Naidu Studios in Hyderabad killed five members of a television crew, including Gangadhara Raju, an E-TV cameraman, Jagadish Babu, a producer for private channel E-TV, Srinivas Rao and S. Krishna, assistant cameramen for E-TV, and Raja Sekhar, an assistant for E-TV, along with their driver and at least 17 others, while covering the making of a film; the attack is believed to have been politically motivated, targeting the film's producer, Paritala Ravi, a former guerrilla leader and member of the governing Telugu Desam party. |
| 14 | 19 November 1997 | G. Raja Sekhar | Eenadu Television | Hyderabad | A car bomb explosion outside Rama Naidu Studios in Hyderabad killed five members of a television crew, including Gangadhara Raju, an E-TV cameraman, Jagadish Babu, a producer for private channel E-TV, Srinivas Rao and S. Krishna, assistant cameramen for E-TV, and Raja Sekhar, an assistant for E-TV, along with their driver and at least 17 others, while covering the making of a film; the attack is believed to have been politically motivated, targeting the film's producer, Paritala Ravi, a former guerrilla leader and member of the governing Telugu Desam party. |
| 15 | 19 November 1997 | Jagadish Babu | Eenadu Television | Hyderabad | A car bomb explosion outside Rama Naidu Studios in Hyderabad killed five members of a television crew, including Gangadhara Raju, an E-TV cameraman, Jagadish Babu, a producer for private channel E-TV, Srinivas Rao and S. Krishna, assistant cameramen for E-TV, and Raja Sekhar, an assistant for E-TV, along with their driver and at least 17 others, while covering the making of a film; the attack is believed to have been politically motivated, targeting the film's producer, Paritala Ravi, a former guerrilla leader and member of the governing Telugu Desam party. |
| 16 | 19 November 1997 | P. Srinivas Rao | Eenadu Television | Hyderabad | A car bomb explosion outside Rama Naidu Studios in Hyderabad killed five members of a television crew, including Gangadhara Raju, an E-TV cameraman, Jagadish Babu, a producer for private channel E-TV, Srinivas Rao and S. Krishna, assistant cameramen for E-TV, and Raja Sekhar, an assistant for E-TV, along with their driver and at least 17 others, while covering the making of a film; the attack is believed to have been politically motivated, targeting the film's producer, Paritala Ravi, a former guerrilla leader and member of the governing Telugu Desam party. |
| 17 | 27 February 1999 | Shivani Bhatnagar | The Indian Express | New Delhi | Bhatnagar, a special correspondent for the Indian Express, was found dead in her apartment in East Delhi. Bhatnagar was strangled and stabbed in the neck and abdomen. While her killers were not identified, early reports speculated that they may have been seeking certain incriminating documents, although police did not find robbery to be a likely motive. |
| 18 | 13 March 1999 | Irfan Hussain | Outlook | New Delhi | Hussain, a cartoonist for Outlook magazine, was found dead on the side of a highway in Delhi with his hands and feet bound, throat slit, and having been stabbed 28 times and strangled. His murder was allegedly linked to his satirical cartoons mocking leaders of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, and a threatening phone call from someone claiming to be a member of the Shiv Sena, a Hindu nationalist political organization, was reportedly made to the wife of another cartoonist prior to Hussain's murder. |
| 19 | 10 October 1999 | N. A. Lalruhlu | Shan | Manipur | Lalruhlu, an editor of the Hmar-language newspaper Shan, and three others were killed in an attack by suspected separatist militants in Manipur, India. The Hmar Revolutionary Front claimed responsibility for the killings, stating that Lalruhlu was not targeted for his journalism, but because of his involvement with a rival militant group, highlighting the ongoing separatist and ethnic violence in the region. |
| 20 | 18 March 2000 | Adhir Rai | Freelance | Deoghar, Jharkhand | Rai was a freelance journalist and president of the Deoghar Working Journalists Union, who was murdered while on assignment. The Hindu, an English-language newspaper, reported on the incident and also mentioned that Rai was a lecturer at a local college. |
| 21 | 31 July 2000 | V. Selvaraj | Nakkeeran | Perambalur, Tamil Nadu | Selvaraj, a journalist for the Tamil-language biweekly Nakkeeran, was killed by a group of about a dozen men in his hometown of Perambalur, Tamil Nadu. He suffered over 20 serious wounds from knives and sickles, and his death may have been related to his reporting on government corruption in Tiruchi. The Crime Branch Central Investigation Department was investigating the case, but no major developments had been reported by the end of the year. |
| 22 | 10 August 2000 | Pradeep Bhatia | Hindustan Times | Srinagar | In August 2000, a bomb attack in the Kashmir capital, Srinagar killed at least 12 people, including Bhatia, a photographer for The Hindustan Times, and injured six other journalists. Hezb-ul Mujahedeen, a militant Kashmiri separatist group, claimed responsibility for the attack targeting Indian security forces. |
| 23 | 20 August 2000 | Thounaojam Brajamani Singh | Manipur News | Imphal | Brajamani, the founder of Manipur News and a well-known journalist in Manipur State, India, was assassinated in the capital city of Imphal while riding his scooter home. He was shot twice in the back of the head by two men who forced him to stop on the road, according to sources. |
| 24 | 30 July 2001 | Moolchand Yadav | Freelancer | Jhansi | Yadav was a freelance reporter who frequently wrote for Hindi-language newspapers such as Jansatta and Punjab Kesari. He was assassinated on a Jhansi street in Uttar Pradesh allegedly due to his investigative reporting on local corruption that angered two influential landowners, according to colleagues. |
| 25 | 14 April 2002 | Paritosh Pandey | Jansatta Express | Lucknow | In April 2002, crime reporter Pandey, who worked for the Hindi-language daily Jansatta Express, was shot and killed at his home in Lucknow. While it is likely that Pandey was targeted due to his reporting on criminal gangs, the specific motive behind his murder remains unclear. |
| 26 | 13 October 2002 | Yambem Meghajit Singh | Northeast Vision | Imphal | In the city of Imphal, located in India's conflict-ridden Northeast region, Meghajit, a chief correspondent for Northeast Vision, was found dead in his home after being beaten with bamboo sticks and shot in the head. While no group has claimed responsibility for the murder, some journalists speculate that it may have been related to Meghajit's involvement in the semiprecious stone trade. |
| 27 | 21 November 2002 | Ram Chander Chhatrapati | Poora Sach | Sirsa, Haryana | Chaterpatti, an editor of Hindi-language newspaper Poora Sach, died from injuries sustained in an assassination attempt in Sirsa, Haryana on October 24, 2016. The alleged gunman and a leader of the Sirsa-based religious sect Dera Sacha Sauda were among three suspects arrested, with officials stating that members of the group ordered Chaterpatti’s murder due to the journalist’s reporting on sexual abuse and other crimes allegedly committed at the group’s compound. In January 2019, a special court in Haryana convicted four individuals of Chaterpatti's murder and criminal conspiracy, sentencing them each to life imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 rupees. |
| 28 | 21 February 2004 | Veeraboina Yadagiri | Andhra Prabha | Medak, Telangana (then Andhra Pradesh) | Murdered for investigating the illegal sale of home-brewed liquor. |
| 29 | 20 April 2004 | Aasia Jeelani | Freelance | Kashmir | Killed in landmine explosion by the militants of the Kashmir region. |
| 30 | 6 January 2006 | Prahlad Goala | Asomiya Khabar | Golaghat, Assam | Murdered after writing multiple articles on timber smuggling. |
| 31 | 1 April 2006 | Mohammed Muslimuddin | Asomiya Pratidin | Barpukhuri, Assam | Murdered by assailants after being targeted for writing about illegal drug trade that linked local influential figures and politicians. |
| 32 | 11 May 2008 | Ashok Sodhi | Daily Excelsior | Samba district, Jammu and Kashmir | Killed in crossfire between militants and security forces in Samba, close to the Line of Control. |
| 33 | 24 March 2009 | Anil Mazumdar | Aji (Assamese Daily) | Tingkhong, Assam | Killed by militants for supporting peace talks between the separatist guerrilla group, United Liberation Front of Asom. |
| 34 | 20 July 2010 | Vijay Pratap Singh | Indian Express | Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh | Killed in a blast outside Nand Gopal Gupta's house. Two Samajwadi Party members were arrested including former-MLA Vijay Mishra. |
| 35 | 11 June 2011 | Jyotirmoy Dey | Mid-Day | Powai, Mumbai | Killed by multiple men on motorcycles, it may have be related to his reporting of the oil mafia. He had also reported about Chhota Rajan. |
| 36 | 7 September 2013 | Rajesh Verma | IBN7 | Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh | |
| 37 | 6 December 2013 | Sai Reddy | Deshbandhu | Bijapur district | |
| 38 | 27 May 2014 | Tarun Kumar Acharya | Sambad and Kanak TV | Khallikote, Ganjam district, Odisha | |
| 39 | 26 November 2014 | M. V. N. Shankar | Andhra Prabha | Chilakaluripet, Andhra Pradesh | |
| 40 | 8 June 2015 | Jagendra Singh | Freelance | Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh | |
| 41 | 20 June 2015 | Sandeep Kothari | Freelance | Katangi, Balaghat district, Madhya Pradesh | |
| 42 | 13 August 2015 | Sanjay Pathak | United News of India | Faridpur district, Uttar Pradesh | |
| 43 | 30 August 2015 | M M Kalburgi | Samagra Vachana Samputa | Dharwad, Karnataka | |
| 44 | 3 October 2015 | Hemant Yadav | TV24 | Chandauli district, Uttar Pradesh | |
| 45 | 13 February 2016 | Karun Misra | Jansandesh Times | Sultanpur, Uttar Pradesh | |
| 46 | 13 May 2016 | Rajdev Ranjan | Hindustan | Siwan, Bihar | |
| 47 | 23 August 2016 | Kishore Dave | Jai Hind | Junagadh, Gujarat | |
| 48 | 5 September 2017 | Gauri Lankesh | Gauri Lankesh Patrike | Bengaluru, Karnataka | |
| 49 | 21 September 2017 | Santanu Bhowmik | Channel Dinraat | Mandwi/Mandai, Tripura | |
| 50 | 24 September 2017 | KJ Singh | | Mohali, Punjab | |
| 51 | 21 November 2017 | Sudip Datta Bhaumik | Bengali language newspaper Syandan Patrika and local television station News Vanguard | Bodhjung Nagar, Tripura | |
| 52 | 25 March 2018 | Navin Nishchal | Dainik Bhaskar | Bhojpur district, Bihar | |
| 53 | 14 June 2018 | Shujaat Bukhari | Editor, Rising Kashmir | Srinagar | |
| 54 | 29 October 2018 | Chandan Tiwari | Reporter, Aj | Pathalgada, Chatra, Jharkhand | |
| 55 | 19 June 2020 | Shubham Mani Tripathi | Reporter, Kampu Mail | Unnao, Uttar Pradesh | Died on the spot after being shot six times, three of them in the head. Just before death said he feared he could be killed because of his investigations into land expropriations linked to illegal sand mining. |
| 56 | 8 November 2020 | Isravel Moses | Reporter at Tamizhan TV | Chennai, Tamil Nadu | Isravel Moses was hacked to death with machetes by alleged drug dealers in the Chennai suburb of Kundrathur after his neighbors identified him as a journalist. The murder occurred a week after he reported on the local sale of cannabis and associated illegal encroachments of land. |
| 57 | 28 November 2020 | Rakesh Singh | Reporter with Hindi language local daily newspaper Rashtriya Swaroop. | Balrampur district, Uttar Pradesh | Burned to death with his friend after assailants set fire to his village house which fall under the jurisdiction of the Kotwali Dehat police station in the Balrampur district of Uttar Pradesh, India. The UP state government has since promised to offer his wife a job. |
| 58 | 13 June 2021 | Sulabh Srivastava | ABP News | Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh | Family members allege foul play; body found half naked with several injury marks after an expose of local liquor mafia. |
| 59 | 8 August 2021 | Chenna Kesavalu | Reporter at the local Telugu news channel EV5 News. | Nandyal, Kurnool District, Andhra Pradesh | Stabbed to death by a local police officer after Kesavalu exposed his connections with gutka smuggling rings. |
| 60 | 3 October 2021 | Raman Kashyap | Reporter, Sadhna Prime News TV | Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar Pradesh | Succumbed to injuries after a convoy of cars drove into a crowd of protestors at the 2021 Farmer's Protests. |
| 61 | 12 November 2021 | Budhinath Jha/ Avinash Jha | Independent journalist for the Facebook news channel, BNN News, Benipatti. | Madhubani district, Bihar | Burnt body discovered by the roadside after he went missing the previous day, presumed to be abducted. He had been reporting on illegal 'fake' clinics operating in the north-east. |
| 62 | 10 August 2021 | Manish Kumar Singh | Sudarshan TV | Mathlohiar Gaddi Tola, East Champaran District, Bihar | Mutilated & decomposed body discovered three days after he went missing; the killer's had removed Singh's eyes. Singh's father, also a journalist, suspected he may have been targeted by local criminals, while the police suspected two of his journalist friends. |
| 63 | 1 January 2025 | Mukesh Chandrakar | Independent Journalist for the YouTube news channel Bastar Junction. | Bijapur, Chhattisgarh | Decomposed body discovered three days after Chandrakar went missing on 1 January 2024 from the septic tank of three construction contractors; Chandrakar had earlier exposed the contractors for corruption. |