Over a month after journalist Raghvendra Bajpai’s murder in Sitapur, police have told the media that he was killed by contract killers hired by the aide of a temple priest. Bajpai had threatened to expose the aide for sexually assaulting a minor on the temple’s premises, police said.
At a press conference on Thursday, Sitapur SP Chakresh Mishra said the aide had paid Rs 4 lakh to two middlemen for the contract killing. The police have arrested three accused so far, including the two middlemen, while the shooters are absconding.
