Varanasi: One Jain Singh (32), a contractor, who was earlier planning to contest panchayat elections himself and was now supporting another candidate, was shot dead by some unidentified assailants in Sahdih village under Cholapur police station on Saturday late night.
SO Cholapur Mahesh Kumar Singh said a named FIR was lodged against two persons in this connection on the complaint filed by Singh’s family. Police are interrogating many persons in this connection, he said. adding that the motive behind the killing is not known yet.
Villagers found Jain Singh’s body lying in a pool of blood on the rear side of his house on Sunday morning and alerted his family. On being informed, Cholapur police reached the spot and started investigating the matter before sending the body for postmortem.
During initial investigation, it came to light that Jain Singh was preparing to contest for gram pradhan in the panchayat elections but the seat of his village was declared reserved. Singh, a contractor, then started backing another candidate.
On Saturday night, he had returned home in his SUV when someone called him on phone and asked him to come out to meet. After inspection of the crime spot, police officials said there were signs of struggle and Singh had put up resistance when the assailants attacked him. The assailants opened fire without giving him chance to take out his licensed pistol and fled from the scene. Police found the pistol and other articles of Singh from the spot.
Cholapur police said that many issues like trade and political rivalry, apart from his old enmities are being looked into by the investigation team. The officials claimed that the case would be worked out very soon.