The truck was seized from Injakkal in Thiruvananthapuram and its driver, Joy, taken into custody.
Police in Kerala Tuesday arrested the driver of a truck suspected to have knocked down a journalist, killing him, in Thiruvananthapuram.
SV Pradeep (36), a television journalist who had worked in organisations like Kairali TV, Manorama News, News18 Kerala and Mangalam TV, succumbed to injuries sustained in the hit-and-run in the state capital. CCTV visuals showed the two-wheeler he was riding being hit by a truck around 3:30 pm Monday at the Karakkamandapam junction near Nemom.
A police officer told reporters that the truck suspected to have been involved in the accident was seized from Injakkal in Thiruvananthapuram and its driver, Joy, taken into custody. He will be questioned Tuesday.
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Kerala: Driver taken into custody after journo death
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Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 15 : The special Kerala Police team formed to conduct a probe into the hit-and-run case that led to the death of journalist S.V. Pradeep here on Monday evening, took into custody the lorry and its driver on Tuesday afternoon in the case.
The head of the special police team told the media that the lorry and the driver were taken into custody from the city itself. The driver Joy has been arrested and only after the detailed questioning, will we be able to say anything more, said the team head.
NEW DELHI: The UP government on Monday turned the heat on Kerala Union of Working Journalists, which has sought release of Siddique Kappan arrested while going to Hathras on October 5 purportedly to cover the death of the alleged gangrape victim, by accusing it of indulging in proxy litigation on behalf of PFI with which Kappan has been linked by police.
The UP government gave the Supreme Court details of how Kappan showed a fake identity card of Thejas newspaper, which was the mouthpiece of PFI and has been closed since 2018, and was planning to incite caste and class violence in the area as per the detailed plan of action of PFI. Kappan was arrested along with three others.
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