{"id":170599,"date":"2025-03-10T10:43:54","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T05:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=170599"},"modified":"2025-03-10T10:43:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T05:43:54","slug":"days-after-receiving-threatening-calls-journalist-shot-dead-in-sitapur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2025\/03\/10\/days-after-receiving-threatening-calls-journalist-shot-dead-in-sitapur.html","title":{"rendered":"Days after receiving threatening calls, journalist shot dead in Sitapur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-170600\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/03\/journalist-dead.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"438\" height=\"245\" \/><\/p>\n<p>New Delhi: A journalist, working for a Hindi daily in Uttar Pradesh, was shot dead on the Sitapur-Delhi Highway near the Hempur railway crossing in the Imalia Sultanpur police station area of Sitapur.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, reports said the 35-year-old Raghvendra Bajpai was receiving threats on the phone in the days leading up to his death.<\/p>\n<p>Raghvendra Bajpai was heading home riding his motorcycle when bike-borne assailants opened fire at him on the highway from a close range.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was struck by three bullets in the shoulder and chest. The attackers fled the scene on their motorcycle,\u201d said Praveen Ranjan Singh, Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Sitapur.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have started collecting evidence, and district borders have been sealed to prevent the attackers from escaping. Call records and other legal processes are underway,\u201d ASP Singh added.<\/p>\n<p>Some locals helped rush Bajpai to a nearby hospital, where doctors declared him dead on arrival.<\/p>\n<p>Family members of the victim claim that the journalist had received threatening phone calls in the days leading up to his death, media reports said.<\/p>\n<p>The police have sent Bajpai\u2019s body for a post-mortem examination to gather further details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: A journalist, working for a Hindi daily in Uttar Pradesh, was shot dead on the Sitapur-Delhi Highway near the Hempur railway crossing in the Imalia Sultanpur police station area of Sitapur. According to Kashmir Media Service, reports said the 35-year-old Raghvendra Bajpai was receiving threats on the phone in the days leading up &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":170600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/03\/journalist-dead.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170601,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170599\/revisions\/170601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}