Patna: Youth going to lodge FIR killed

PATNA: One Janardan alias Jano Mahto (52) was arrested for allegedly shooting Lallan Kumar (22) dead on Tuesday. The incident took place near Jandinagar village under Barh subdivision of Patna district when Lallan of Chanainiya was on way to Bhadaur police station to lodge an FIR against Janardan.
Bhadaur police station SHO Niwas Kumar said Janardan, a native of Jandinagar, was arrested from Kaima Taal area. He said Lallan’s father Nago Mahto had also received gunshot injury in his leg while his brother younger brother Suman Kumar (19) was thrashed with rods and sticks when they were passing through Jandinagar, which is near Chanainiya.
“Lallan, along with Suman, father and uncle Munna Prasad, was coming to Bhadaur police station around 7am on Tuesday to lodge an FIR against Janardan when they were attacked,” the SHO said quoting the FIR lodged by Lallan’s brother.
“Lallan’s family had a fight with Janardan on Monday evening over an old dispute. The murder seems to be a fallout of that incident,” the SHO said. He said six persons, including Janardan, had been named accused in the murder case. “The arrested accused is also injured. Raids were on to nab the other five accused,” he said.
One arrested for duping people in PM’s name: The Economic Offences Unit (EOU) with the help of Vaishali police, arrested one Rajan Kumar on Tuesday for allegedly duping people in the name of fraud financial assistance of Rs15,000 being given under a scheme of PM Narendra Modi to the applicants amid the Covid crisis. An FIR was lodged with Garaul police station against Rajan in this regard.
Rajan created a WhatsApp profile using Bihar Police’s official logo. He sent a link to many with appeal to fill the form with their bank account details for getting Rs15000. EOU received the information about the forgery on Tuesday and traced the youth at village Khurrampur under Garaul police station in Vaishali. EOU sources said Kumar’s bank account details were being gathered. He had also applied for the constable’s post in state police.