Congress Haryana president Bhupinder Singh Hooda has strongly condemned the incident, calling it a "blot on the law and order situation of the state." He has also demanded a "high-level" and "impartial" probe into the incident.
Samajwadi Party MP Awadhesh Prasad lashed out at the Uttar Pradesh government over the brutal murder of a Dalit girl in Ayodhya, calling it an "extremely sad and inhuman" crime.
Police reported that a body was discovered in a mangled condition inside a car early yesterday morning. Initially unidentifiable, it was later confirmed to be the charred remains of a woman.
Following Defense Minister Israel Katz's announcement that the bodies of two hostages were recovered in Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces said it had only recovered the body one.
The incident took place on Friday night and prima facie it seemed to a suicide case though the actual cause of death would be ascertain after post mortem report, he added.
The journalist, identified as Mukesh Chandrakar, had been actively covering Naxal incidents and was brutally murdered before being dumped into the septic tank.
One more body was recovered from the Bengaluru under-construction building collapse spot, taking the death toll to nine in the incident, the police said on Friday.