BEGUSARAI/PATNA: A shopkeeper was kidnapped and shot dead while two persons were shot at and criminals looted gold ornaments in separate incidents in the state since Monday evening.
Bike-borne criminals kidnapped Prithvi Choudhury from his shop in Birpur Bazar under the Birpur police station area of Begusarai district around 12.30pm on Tuesday and took him a few kilometres away on their bike before shooting him dead. Local shopkeepers downed their shutters and angry people disrupted traffic on Birpur-Begusarai road in protest. Sources said the incident might be related to the victim’s failure to meet extortion demand. Begusarai SP Awakash Kumar told this newspaper over phone that two persons had been arrested in the case.
In another incident, Mohammad Idrish and Mohammad Chotu were shot at near Maulashah ka Bagh under the Khajekala police station area in Patna City on Tuesday afternoon. Khajekala SHO Abrar Ahmed said one Mohammad Sonu (34) fired at the duo after an altercation. He said both Sonu and Idrish had criminal antecedents and CCA was invoked on them during the recent elections. He said Sonu had come out of jail only two days back in a murder case.
In the third incident, unidentified armed criminals looted around one kilogram of gold ornaments from a jewellery shop at Sumerganj village under the Goraul police station area in Vaishali district on Monday evening.
Mahua SDPO Mundrika Prasad said the shop is located more than 10km away from the police station. He said at least five criminals on bikes reached the shop and fired in the air to terrorize the villagers while fleeing with the booty.
“One of the criminals went inside the shop and asked shopowner Kailash Prasad Sah to show him some gold jewellery for marriage purpose. While he was handed over a few items to see, another criminal entered the shop,” he said.
The SDPO said the shopkeeper grew suspicious and ran out of his shop shouting for help. “In the meantime, criminals collected as much jewellery as possible and fled the spot while firing in the air when villagers gathered and started pelting the criminals with stones,” he said.
“Police chased them for several kilometres but they managed to escape,” he said. He said though Sah in his FIR alleged that around one kilogram of gold ornaments were looted, police believe that so much gold was not inside the shop at the time of the crime.
Bike-borne criminals kidnapped Prithvi Choudhury from his shop in Birpur Bazar under the Birpur police station area of Begusarai district around 12.30pm on Tuesday and took him a few kilometres away on their bike before shooting him dead. Local shopkeepers downed their shutters and angry people disrupted traffic on Birpur-Begusarai road in protest. Sources said the incident might be related to the victim’s failure to meet extortion demand. Begusarai SP Awakash Kumar told this newspaper over phone that two persons had been arrested in the case.
In another incident, Mohammad Idrish and Mohammad Chotu were shot at near Maulashah ka Bagh under the Khajekala police station area in Patna City on Tuesday afternoon. Khajekala SHO Abrar Ahmed said one Mohammad Sonu (34) fired at the duo after an altercation. He said both Sonu and Idrish had criminal antecedents and CCA was invoked on them during the recent elections. He said Sonu had come out of jail only two days back in a murder case.
In the third incident, unidentified armed criminals looted around one kilogram of gold ornaments from a jewellery shop at Sumerganj village under the Goraul police station area in Vaishali district on Monday evening.
Mahua SDPO Mundrika Prasad said the shop is located more than 10km away from the police station. He said at least five criminals on bikes reached the shop and fired in the air to terrorize the villagers while fleeing with the booty.
“One of the criminals went inside the shop and asked shopowner Kailash Prasad Sah to show him some gold jewellery for marriage purpose. While he was handed over a few items to see, another criminal entered the shop,” he said.
The SDPO said the shopkeeper grew suspicious and ran out of his shop shouting for help. “In the meantime, criminals collected as much jewellery as possible and fled the spot while firing in the air when villagers gathered and started pelting the criminals with stones,” he said.
“Police chased them for several kilometres but they managed to escape,” he said. He said though Sah in his FIR alleged that around one kilogram of gold ornaments were looted, police believe that so much gold was not inside the shop at the time of the crime.
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