Home guard jawan shot dead in Bihar's Gopalganj

PATNA: Two bike-borne unidentified criminals shot dead home guard jawan Bhola Singh (57) over land dispute at village Ekderwa under Town police station area in Gopalganj on Tuesday morning.
Police said Bhola was shot five times near his residence around 10am when he was going for his duty on a bike.
Soon after the incident, irate villagers blocked the national highway near Chainpatti, which resulted in long traffic jam for several hours.
Sadar SDPO Naresh Paswan told TOI over the phone that the blockade was lifted after pacifying the agitating villagers.
Paswan said criminals had attacked Bhola on November 26, 2019, also but he had managed to survive the gunshot injuries.
“That incident was also related to the same land dispute. One person was arrested while another was still absconding in that case,” he said.
Town police station SHO Prashant Kumar said the deceased had a land dispute with co-villager Sanjay Singh (40) for a long time. “Bhola was trying to sell the plot owned by him to someone. However, Sanjay was pressuring the jawan to sell it to him instead. This was the cause of enmity between the two,” he said.
The SHO said the jawan was rushed to the hospital but doctors declared him dead. “He had moved hardly 400 metres away from his residence when the criminals on another bike incepted him and opened fire,” he said.
Kumar said Bhola had received multiple gunshot injuries in chest, resulting in his death on the spot.
He said that raids were on to arrest Sanjay, who was also involved in the previous attack on Bhola.
Meanwhile, in another incident, a trader was shot dead while purchasing vegetables near Chainpur post office under Town police station area of Bhabhua in Kaimur on Monday evening.
SHO Ramanand Mandal said the deceased was identified as Nitish Kumar (28). He owned a cellphone shop near the post office.
“He was purchasing vegetables with one of his relatives at around 8.10pm when two youths on a bike reached there. One of them pulled out a pistol and shot Nitish in the head, resulting in his immediate death,” he said.
Mandal said the investigation revealed that Nitish, who was married, had an illicit relation with another woman.
“Police suspect the killing was a fallout of the illicit relation. Nitish’s nephew Ram Sundar Prasad has name two persons as accused in the FIR, but has not cited any reason,” he said.
He said both the accused were evading arrest and raids were on to nab them. Mandal said the body was handed over to family after postmortem on Tuesday.