Journalists who helped nab policeman's killer
feted
Friday March 29, 2013 08:38:27 PM,
IANS
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Kolkata: Two
electronic media journalists who risked their lives to capture on
camera a policeman's killing and a reporter who wrote about the
incident in vivid detail leading to the killers' arrest were feted
Friday.
Prabir Chakraborty and Samir Mandal -- cameraperson-cum-reporters
of two news channels -- and Ashfaq Ahmed, the reporter of an Urdu
daily, were conferred Courageous Journalism Award by former
Calcutta High Court chief justice Chittatosh Mookherjee at the
10th All Media Personnel Welfare Association (AMPWA) Awards
co-organised by the South 24-Parganas Journalist Association.
The trio received threats for their brave act for capturing the
crime Feb 12 in Garden Reach during a clash between Trinamool
Congress and Congress student activists over student union polls.
Tapas Chowdhury, a sub-inspector attached to Kolkata Police's
special branch, was shot at from close range while trying to
control the clashing students in Harimohan Ghose College.
The footages captured by Sengupta and Mandal showed the alleged
killer Sheikh Subhaan coming out of the crowd holding a firearm,
approaching the policeman, turning left, retreating a few steps
and then letting go the shot before escaping.
They also captured another footage, which showed Trinamool
Congress councillor of Kolkata Municipal Corporation Moahmmed
Iqbal standing beside Shubhaan.
Kolkata Police filed a first information report based on the
footage which eventually led to Iqbal's arrest by the Crime
Investigation Department (CID) from Dehri-on-Sone after being on
the run for some days.
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