For 2 years, murdered journalist Shashikant Warishe had been highlighting villagers’ issues with refinery
Shashikant Warishe died after he was mowed down in Rajapur by a vehicle allegedly being driven by Pandharinath Amberkar — a real estate dealer and a supporter of the proposed refinery — against whom he had written an article published on Monday.
Shashikant Warishe died after he was mowed down in Rajapur by a vehicle allegedly being driven by Pandharinath Amberkar — a real estate dealer and a supporter of the proposed refinery — against whom he had written an article published on Monday. Shashikant Warishe, the 48-year-old journalist who was murdered in Maharashtra’s Ratnagiri Tuesday, had been highlighting issues faced by local residents in connection with the setting up of the Ratnagiri refinery and petrochemicals factory in the district for the last two years, his family and associates said on Wednesday.
“He has been constantly writing about the refinery and the concerns that the villagers had about the project. He wrote extensively on the land acquisition fears of the villagers as well as the concerns of environmentalists,” Sadashiv Kerkar, the editor-in-chief of Mahanagari Times, a Mumbai-based paper, said.
Warishe died after he was mowed down in Rajapur by a vehicle allegedly being driven by Pandharinath Amberkar — a real estate dealer and a supporter of the proposed refinery — against whom he had written an article published on Monday. The immediate trigger for the murder was an article titled ‘Photo of criminal on banner alongside PM, CM and DCM claim farmers protesting against refinery’, where Warishe had alleged that Amberkar had criminal antecedents.
The site of the incident. (Express Photo)
Shashikant Warishe used to reside with his mother and 19-year-old son in Kasheli village.
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