Sudip Datta Bhaumik (died 21 November 2017) was a journalist killed in the

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ern state of

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in India by a police officer of the Tripura State Rifles during an altercation. Sudip was a reporter for the

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'' and the local television channel News Vanguard. He had gone to meet the commandant of the Second TSR after obtaining an appointment with him. He had an altercation with a personal staff officer (PSO) of the commandant outside the latter’s office, during which the PSO shot him dead. The Tripura chief minister,

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, and the union home minister of state,

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, condemned the killing.

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