Sandeep Kothari row: Burnt scribe a criminal, says MP police

MUMBAI: The MP police on Monday claimed that the journalist who was burnt to death in Maharashtra was not a scribe but a history-sheeter, this even as the state government formed a seven-member SIT to probe the murder and look into the unanswered questions.

Balaghat Additional SP Neeraj Soni claimed that Sandeep Kothari’s murder was not related to any mining issue and that the crime was an outcome of a property dispute between him and the main accused Vishal Dandi. Soni also claimed that Kothari stopped working as a journalist since 2013.