# Attacks on Journalists Exposing Corruption in India

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2069048546293395822
- Source account: [@VinayDokania](https://x.com/VinayDokania)
- Source language: Hindi
- Target language: English
- Duration: 0:54
- Published: 2026-06-22
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## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/rwNDqe2Ige5c/en/attacks-on-journalists-exposing-corruption-in-india) " Indian media is sold out." It's very easy to say this on social media.

[0:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/rwNDqe2Ige5c/en/attacks-on-journalists-exposing-corruption-in-india?t=3) Let me tell you what the reality is. His name is Raghavendra Bajpai.

[0:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/rwNDqe2Ige5c/en/attacks-on-journalists-exposing-corruption-in-india?t=8) He is an Indian journalist, who exposed the land and stamp duty scam.

[0:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/rwNDqe2Ige5c/en/attacks-on-journalists-exposing-corruption-in-india?t=11) What happened because of doing such good work? He was shot on the highway.

[0:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/rwNDqe2Ige5c/en/attacks-on-journalists-exposing-corruption-in-india?t=14) There is another journalist whose photo you might have seen. His name was Mukesh, who exposed the Chhattisgarh road scam. And what does he get as a reward?

[0:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/rwNDqe2Ige5c/en/attacks-on-journalists-exposing-corruption-in-india?t=24) He is killed and his dead body is buried in cement inside a water tank.

[0:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/rwNDqe2Ige5c/en/attacks-on-journalists-exposing-corruption-in-india?t=28) And this list is very long. Naresh Kumar, who exposed corruption, was hacked to death with a sword. Rajiv Pratap, who exposed the hospital, and suddenly he disappeared, never to be found to this day. Sneha Barve…

[0:40](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/rwNDqe2Ige5c/en/attacks-on-journalists-exposing-corruption-in-india?t=40) And these names that I'm telling you about are just from the last two or three years.

[0:43](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/rwNDqe2Ige5c/en/attacks-on-journalists-exposing-corruption-in-india?t=43) There are countless journalists who exposed something, did some good work, and today they are no longer alive. So when you say," The media is sold out," this is also a reality of the media, you must understand them too.