Days after his body was recovered from a river, the mystery surrounding the death of Uttarakhand journalist Rajeev Pratap has only deepened with both the police and his family giving contrasting accounts of what led to his death.

While the police claim Pratap died in an accident, his wife Muskan has alleged foul play, stating that he was being threatened over a news report he uploaded on his YouTube channel about a local hospital.

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According to the police, Rajeev Pratap met with an accident and his car fell into a river in Uttarkashi. The car, a Maruti Alto, was pulled out of the river on September 19 but his body was likely swept away and recovered on Sunday, 10 days after he went missing, from the Joshiyara Barrage.

Rajeev Pratap, an IIMC alumnus, ran a YouTube news chan

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