PATNA: Three persons including two land brokers were murdered and their bodies were together dumped in a secluded place at village Nirmali under Pipra police station area in Supual on Friday.
The slain persons have been identified as Parmesh Singh, Mohammad Islam and Mohammad Rahmatullah. The trio were aged between 40 years to 45 years.
For several hours, all three bodies remained unidentified as no belongings of the trio including their cellphone were recovered from the spot . Their identities could be ascertained in the evening.
Singh is native of Kajra village while rest two are natives of Sonak village, all under Town police station area in Supaul.
Police said that Singh and Islam were land brokers while Rahmatullah was a farmer. They said Singh’s body had a shirt and a trouser on it while the rest two bodies had shirts and undergarments on them.
Pipra police station SHO Santosh Kumar Nirala said that the spot where the three bodies were recovered is at least 30 kilometres away from their residence in Kajra and Sonak.
Nirala said some villagers spotted the bodies at around 8am and informed police after which their photos were circulated on social media groups for identification.
“It seems they were murdered somewhere else after which the bodies were dumped in a field beside the village road in Nirmali. There were tyre marks at the spot indicating that the bodies were brought in a vehicle,” he said.
SHO said that prima facie it seems all three were beaten to death. “There are no severe injury marks on the bodies. No sign of strangulation or throttling on the trio’s neck were present. Only a few scratches were present on their legs,” Nirala said.
The SHO said that police strongly suspects that the trio were murdered over a land dispute or any financial issue arising from it.
“Singh and Islam worked together while Rahmatullah separately knew Islam. Both dealers had left home on Thursday morning and didn’t return. Rahmatullah left home in the night. He had asked his son to drop him to a nearby village named Ekma and didn’t return afterwards,” he said adding family members were yet to report at Town police station that they were missing.
Nirala said all the bodies have been sent to post-mortem at sadar hospital. “Investigation is on to know where they were murdered and who all are involved in the killing,” he said.