PATNA: Unidentified criminals
shot dead
a contractor, Shambhu Mishra at Mathia Barwa village under the Uchkagaon police station area in
Gopalganj
district on Saturday.
The incident took place around 8am when Mishra was practising yoga on the premises of a community hall at the village. Two youths riding a motorbike reached the spot and fired at 52-year-old Mishra from close range. The assailants, who were in the age group of 18-20 years, drove towards Barosara after committing the crime.
Some locals rushed Mishra to a local primary health centre from where he was referred to the sadar hospital at Gopalganj where the doctors declared him brought dead.
Atul Upadhyay, an eyewitness, told police that Mishra was shot from a point blank range.
SHO of Uchkagaon police station Krishna Kumar said personal enmity appeared to be the reason behind the incident. Earlier, Mishra’s 11-year-old son was strangulated to death by some anti-socials.
Woman opposes hubby’s illicit affair, killed: A 25-year-old woman, who was allegedly thrashed by her husband Vinay Ram at a village under Akilpur police station area in Patna district for opposing his illicit relation with aunt and sister-in-law (brother’s wife), died during treatment at Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH) on Saturday. The woman was also thrashed by her in-laws.
PMCH police temporary outpost incharge Amit Kumar said the victim was identified as Naini Devi. “In her statement recorded before police, Naini’s mother
Rupjhari Devi
(60) has named Vinay, his aunt, sister-in-law and three others.
Kumar said Naini lived with her husband at Manas village. “According to Rupjhari’s statement, her daughter was thrashed on May 7 and taken to a block level hospital before being shifted to PMCH,” Kumar said, adding Rupjhari has also accused the husband and in-laws of her daughter of seeking dowry.
SHO of Akilpur police station Sanjay Kumar said, “We came to know that the victim’s mother has recorded her statement at PMCH police TOP. I have sent a police team to PMCH. An FIR will be lodged on the basis of the statement of the victim’s mother,” he added.
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