Ex-zila parishad member shot dead in Purnia district

PURNIA: Two motorcycle-borne criminals shot dead former Dhamdaha zila parishad member, Vishwajeet Singh alias Rintu Singh, hardly 100-150 yards away from the Sarsi police station in the district on Friday evening. His wife Anulika Singh is a sitting zila parishad member. The locals blocked road on Saturday to protest the murder.
“Sarsi police station SHO has been suspended. Raids are on to nab the assailants,” Purnia SP Daya Shankar told this reporter on Saturday.
Sources said Rintu was also the deputy district president of the Congress. He was planning to contest the 2025 assembly election from Dhamdaha. An attempt on his life was made ten days ago, but he had escaped unhurt. An FIR was lodged against a hardcore criminal with the Sarsi police station in this connection, but he was not arrested.
This region is infamous for political killings in the past several years.
Meanwhile, leader of opposition in the state assembly, Tejashwi Prasad Yadav, lashed out at the state police over the murder. The RJD leader said Rintu had lodged a written complaint to the police alleging that he had threat from the nephew of Bihar minister Lesi Singh. Calling the state police as JD(U) police, Tejashwi tweeted that in spite of a written complaint lodged by Rintu, police failed to react.