Day After Flagging Mafia Threat, UP Journalist Dies; Cops Say 'Accident'

Sulabh Shrivastava's death has been slammed by the Congress, with Priyanka Gandhi Vadra hitting out at Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and his government

A television journalist based in Uttar Pradesh's Pratapgarh district died Sunday night in what the police have called a "motorcycle accident". शराब माफिया अलीगढ़ से प्रतापगढ़ तक:पूरे प्रदेश में मौत का तांडव करें।उप्र सरकार चुप।पत्रकार सच्चाई उजागर करे, प्रशासन को खतरे के प्रति आगाह करे।सरकार सोई है।क्या जंगलराज को पालने-पोषने वाली उप्र सरकार के पास पत्रकार सुलभ श्रीवास्तव जी के परिजनों के आंसुओं का कोई जवाब है? Just a day before his death, Sulabh Shrivastava, who worked for ABP News and its regional arm, ABP Ganga, wrote to senior police officials saying he felt threatened following his recent reportage of liquor mafias in the district. "Mr Shrivastava was returning on his motorcycle after media coverage, at around 11 pm at night on Sunday. He fell from his motorcycle near a brick kiln. Some labourers lifted him from the road and then used his phone to call his friends, and they called an ambulance too. He was taken to the district hospital where the doctors declared him dead," Surendra Dwivedi, a senior police official in Pratapgarh, said in a statement. "Initial investigations have revealed he was alone on his bike and fell after his bike collided with a handpump by the road. We are investigating other angles too," Mr Dwivedi said in the statement.