Archive · 30 Jul 2025
Chhattisgarh: PWD Officers Arrested After Journalist's Murder
In Chhattisgarh, India, five public works officers were arrested for doing a bad job building a road.
This happened because a local journalist, Mukesh Chandrakar, reported on the poor quality of the road.
Sadly, the journalist was later murdered.
The police arrested the officers after an investigation revealed they didn't build the road properly.
They are accused of corruption.
The journalist's reporting led to these arrests.
Now, they are in legal trouble because of the investigation into the road and the journalist's death.
Five Chhattisgarh PWD officers were arrested for irregularities in a Bijapur road project.
The arrests followed the murder of journalist Mukesh Chandrakar, who exposed the corruption.
Two retired and one serving Executive Engineers, along with an SDO and a sub-engineer, were arrested.
The journalist was killed seven months prior after reporting on the poor road quality.
A special investigation team filed a chargesheet in the journalist's murder case.
- Who
- Five PWD officers (including two retired EEs) and a journalist, Mukesh Chandrakar.
- What
- Five PWD officers were arrested for irregularities in road construction and corruption.
- When
- Arrests were made recently, seven months after the journalist's murder.
- Where
- Bijapur district, Chhattisgarh, India.
- Why
- The arrests were made because of corruption and poor quality of work in a road construction project, exposed by a journalist.
- Arrested Officers
- Two retired EEs, one serving EE, one SDO, one sub-engineer
- Incident Location
- Bijapur district, Chhattisgarh
- Road Project
- Gangaloor- Mirtur- Nelsnar road
- Journalist Murdered
- Mukesh Chandrakar
- Chargesheet Filed
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