Two gunned down in Patna within 24 hours

PATNA: A fish trader and a married woman were killed in separate incidents in Patna within 24 hours of a high-level meeting chaired by CM Nitish Kumar to review the law and order situation in the state on Saturday.
While one Kiran Sahni (35) was shot dead near Machua Toli Mor under Danapur police station area around 4pm, a 40-year-old married woman was gunned down for resisting a loot in the autorickshaw in which she was travelling with her husband to Patna Junction in the wee hours of Sunday.
Sahni, a resident of Bhattha Road in Danapur, was attacked when he was sitting outside a cement store. His father Lalbabu Sahni said the deceased was to attend a wedding ceremony of a relative. “When I reached the spot, Kiran was lying in a pool of blood. He was rushed to the local Sadar hospital where doctors declared him dead,” Lalbabu said.
Danapur police station SHO (incharge) Sanjay Kumar Singh said the reason behind the incident was not ascertained yet. “The CCTV footage is being obtained to identify the criminals,” he said.
The trader was murdered barely a few hours after the killing of one Saika Parveen around 1.30am, when the two criminals travelling in the same autorickshaw robbed the victim and her husband Imran Alam (45) of cash near Chiraiyatand overbridge.
Imran, who works at a private bank at Andar in Siwan district, told the police that he had already handed over the money to the robbers. However, his wife offered resistance when the criminals fired at her at point blank range for the delay in handing over the cash. The bullet pierced through her eyes and face. The robbers fled after snatching money from them. The autorickshaw driver also fled, leaving the injured Saika on the spot.
Imran raised an alarm and a police patrol car of Jakkanpur police station rushed to the spot and admitted the injured to the PMCH where she was declared dead. Saika was a teacher in a school at Dehri-on-Sone in Rohtas district. The couple had reached Patna from Siwan by a bus and alighted at Agamkuan from where they hired an autorickshaw for Patna Junction. “When we occupied our seats, the two passengers were shifted to the seats beside the driver. They signalled the driver to stop the auto near Chiraiyatand and started robbing us,” Imran said.
The incidents evoked sharp reactions from leader of opposition Tejashwi Prasad Yadav, who tweeted, “In Bihar, ‘mahajungle raj’ is going wild with the outpouring of criminals, gunfire and havoc on businessmen.”
He further said, “Why the CM sitting on a double-engine train is helpless. Why is ‘maharaja’ of the ‘mahajungle raj’ silent?”
Responding to Tejashwi’s remarks, deputy CM Tarkishore Prasad said maintaining law and order was his government’s top priority. “Everybody knows what was the law and order situation under the previous government in Bihar. The BJP has successfully transformed the state,” he said.