IndiGo manager’s murder in Patna: No headway in probe yet

PATNA: Former deputy CM and Rajya Sabha MP Sushil Kumar Modi virtually became speechless when Aradhya, eight-year-old daughter of IndiGo’s station manager at Patna airport Rupesh Kumar Singh, who was killed on Tuesday, asked him to hand over the assailants to her mother who will shoot them to avenge the gruesome killing.
Modi, who called on the bereaved family in Saran district on Thursday, turned emotional after listening to the unusual ‘demand’ of Aradhya, a Class IV student of a Patna-based school.He hugged the elder sibling of Rupesh.
Locals who were present at the house urged the senior BJP leader to intervene in the matter. Rupesh’s wife Nitu Singh and her son Akshat were also present.
Meanwhile, police are still groping in the dark in the case. The members of SIT remained busy in collecting CCTV footages from different locations right from the Patna airport to Puanaichak where Rupesh was shot.
Another team led by a DSP-rank officer obtained the call detail records (CDR) of the Rupesh’s cellphone to ascertain the identity of the shooters, who pumped at least six bullets into Rupesh’s body from close range.
“We have got some clues in the case and are proceeding in the right direction,” an investigating officer said.