{"id":503464,"date":"2024-03-02T15:17:55","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T09:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=503464"},"modified":"2024-03-02T15:58:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T10:28:05","slug":"indian-dancer-amarnath-ghose-murder-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/indian-dancer-amarnath-ghose-murder-us\/","title":{"rendered":"India responds to dancer Amarnath Ghosh&#8217;s murder in US"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Indian government on Saturday, responding to the murder of renowned Kuchipudi dancer Amarnath Ghosh, said that it has taken up the case strongly with St Louis Police the University for investigation of the reprehensible gun attack in US&#8217; Missouri.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Indian consulate in Chicago said that they are in touch with the US authorities and are constantly following the investigation. The Kolkata dancer, who was pursuing an MFA in Dance at Washington University in Saint Louis, was shot dead on Tuesday while he was taking an evening walk in Missouri, as per the reports. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Consulate is extending all help to relatives of deceased Amarnath Ghosh. Taken up the case strongly with St Louis police and the University for investigation of the reprehensible gun attack. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IndianEmbassyUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@IndianEmbassyUS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MEAIndia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MEAIndia<\/a><\/p>&mdash; India in Chicago (@IndiainChicago) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IndiainChicago\/status\/1763794032595992807?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 2, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Taking to X, the embassy expressed their condolence to the family and friends of deceased Ghosh and said that they are following up forensic, investigation with police and providing support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emphasising that, the embassy further said that the consulate has been extending all help to relatives of deceased Ghosh and has taken up the case strongly with St Louis police and the University for investigation of the reprehensible gun attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The television actor Devoleena Bhattacharjee, who in a post on X, highlighted the incident and had sought the help of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bhattacharjee said that her fried Ghosh was shot and killed in St Louis Academy neighbourhood, US on Tuesday evening. He was the only child in the family, his mother died 3 years back, and his father passed away during his childhood, she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The reason behind it and the accused details everything has not been revealed yet or perhaps no one left in his family to fight for it except his few friends. He was from Kolkata. Excellent dancer, was pursuing PhD, was taking an evening walk and suddenly he was shot multiple times by an unknown, Bhattacharjee further added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Why did a dancer <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AmarnathGhosh?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AmarnathGhosh<\/a> go to US for his PhD? <br><br>\u201cWhat\u2019s this love for USA\u201d people\u2019ve been asking me!!<br>Will answer it all, after I\u2019m done with my duty as a mother figure towards a son killed in foreign soil! \ud83e\udd72<br><br>The pain would never seize.. <br>scenes of him being shot, his\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RDnRegLyjc\">pic.twitter.com\/RDnRegLyjc<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Meenakshi Sharan (@meenakshisharan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/meenakshisharan\/status\/1763868056063750203?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 2, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>She appealed to the Indian embassy and PM Modi to kindly look into it and said some friends in the US have been trying to claim the body but still no update about it. At least we should know the reason for his murder, the TV actor said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A champion in four dance styles, Amarnath Ghosh was an alumnus of the Kalakshetra Academy in Chennai. He was the recipient of a National Scholarship for Kuchipudi, from the International Cultural Ministry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghosh was the recipient of a National Scholarship for Kuchipudi, from the International Cultural Ministry. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":503473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"India responds to dancer Amarnath Ghose's murder in US","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497,125714],"tags":[162175,42,501],"yst_prominent_words":[],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2024\/03\/02151711\/New-Project-2024-03-02T142339.219-1.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503464"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503464"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=503464"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=503464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->