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Sulabh Srivastava: Just a day before his death he wrote to police saying he felt threatened
Lucknow:
A television journalist based in Uttar Pradesh s Pratapgarh district died Sunday night in what the police have called a motorcycle accident .
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.
The reporter, Sulabh Srivastava, recently ran a news story against the liquor mafia, and two days back, he had written to the Prayagraj additional director general of police, seeking protection.
Srivastava recently ran a news story against the liquor mafia in the district. On June 12, he had written to Additional DGP of Prayagraj zone, Prem Prakash, seeking protection.