A journalist working for a leading Delhi-based news channel on Saturday suddenly took ill and died just after interviewing the parents of a girl who had been found dead near railway tracks after her name figured in the infamous MPPEB scam of Madhya Pradesh. The incident took place in Meghnagar, near Jhabua town.
Akshay Singh, who worked for TV Today group, had on Saturday called on the parents of Namrata Damor, whose body had been found under mysterious circumstances near railway tracks in Ujjain district. Namrata's father Mehtab Singh Damor said Akshay and two others visited their house on Saturday afternoon. After the interview was over, someone was sent to get some papers photocopied.
As Akshay was waiting outside Damor's house, suddenly he started frothing from his mouth. He was rushed to the civil hospital and later to a private hospital, but doctors failed to revive him. From there he was taken to another hospital in nearby Dahod in Gujarat, where he was declared brought dead.
Jhabua district's Superintendent of Police Abid Khan confirmed that a person named Akshay Singh had died in Meghnagar.