This story is from October 8, 2020

7 held, ex-RJD leader killed over financial dispute: Purnia SP

Police on Wednesday arrested seven persons for their alleged involvement in the killing of former RJD Mahadalit leader Shakti Kumar Mallik.
7 held, ex-RJD leader killed over financial dispute: Purnia SP
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PATNA: Police on Wednesday arrested seven persons for their alleged involvement in the killing of former RJD Mahadalit leader Shakti Kumar Mallik.
Mallik was shot dead inside his residence in Purnia on Sunday morning. Purnia SP Vishal Sharma told TOI over phone as of now it has been found that Mallik was killed in a dispute related to his money lending business. “No evidence has surfaced over involvement of RJD leaders Tejashwi Prasad, Tej Pratap Yadav, Anil Kumar Sadhu and three others in the killing who were made named accused in the FIR lodged by the former RJD leader’s wife Khusbu Devi,” he said.
Sharma told media persons in Purnia that the arrested accused have identified as Mohammad Aftab, Salim Ganni, Mohammad Junaid, Mohammad Afroz, Ekaam Khan, Mohammad Yusuf and Mohammad Tanveer.
Five country- made pistols including those used in the killing, three live cartridges, knife used in stabbing, five cellphones and two bikes used in crime were seized by police from the arrested persons.
“Mallik had lended Rs 70, 000 to one Aftab on interest and the amount which he was supposed to return was Rs 2.1 lakh . Similarly, Mallik had lent money to one Tanveer also and was pressurising him to pay Rs 1.05 lakh and had twice ransacked his roadside hotel for non-payment,” the SP said.
The SP also added that Mallik was also harassing and humiliating one Archana Devi and her husband Chandan Kumar Gupta in a similar way.
“On October 3, Mallik had held Tanveer captive for almost four hours after which some of the lenders decided to kill him,” he said.
Sharma said that all the seven persons gathered outside Mallik’s residence on wee hours and hid inside a bathroom
He also added that Mallik mainly used to lend money to females. He said one currency counting machine, six blank non-judicial stamp papers, photocopies of Adhaar cards of 36 females and a diary containing names of people and money lent to them were recovered from Mallik’s residence.
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