Traders are new targets of criminals as panic grips Bihar
Patna, Dec 23 (The Bihar Post/ IBNS): Criminals have gone on the rampage in Bihar, targeting business community people. In the past two days, at least four people from this community have been killed.
In a fresh incident, the miscreants killed National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) contractor KP Shahi in Darbhanga district on Saturday morning.
Reports quoting police sources said Shahi was going to the construction site on his car when the miscreants followed him in another car and shot him dead.
Reports said the miscreants who were riding a car having no registration number fired four-five shots at the contractor who sustained serious injuries in the attack and was rushed to a local hospital where he was declared brought dead.
As per media reports, Shahi was currently involved in repairing of NH-57 passing through Darbhanga and had been working for the NHAI for the past over a decade.
“We have formed the special investigation team and the criminals will be arrested soon,” Darbhanga SSP GarimaMalik told the media on Saturday.
Another incident of murder was reported from Gaya district where the criminals shot dead Punjab National Bank (PNB) customer serviced point owner Pintu Singh on Friday night. His body was found along the GT road on Saturday morning.
Yet another contractor was shot dead in Muzaffarpur district on Friday evening while he had gone to attend a funeral feast.
According to reports, the victim Ram Krishna Sharma was serving food when the miscreant shot him in his leg. As he tried to flee the scene to save himself, the miscreant chased him and pumped five bullets into his body, leaving him dead. The criminal fled after committing the crime.
Earlier on Thursday, a leading industrialist Gunjan Khemka who was also working for the BJP was shot dead by criminals in Hajipur town.
The victim was going to his factory on his car when a motorcycle-borne criminal fired at his car from a close range, leaving him dead. The incidents triggered strong protests in Patna as medicine shop owners downed their shutters in protest.
Gunjan family is settled in Patna and his father Gopal Khemka is said to be running Magadh Hospital located in Rajendra Nagar locality of the state capital.
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