09 November 2004
Dilip Mohapatra
Other non-natural
Dilip Mohapatra, editor of Aji Kagaj, was found dead on the National Highway 42 near Bhagirathipur with his hands and legs bound with plastic tape and his skull smashed.
Mohapatra had been reported missing since Monday, 8 November.
Police reported that he had been killed with sharp weapons and that his head injuries had been sustained either with a heavy object or he had been run over by a car.
The IFJ has received preliminary reports that Mohapatra's murder was connected to his work as a journalist relating to recent exposes run by the newspaper about the timber and narcotics mafia in the region.
