Nawada: Shop owner shot dead inside moving bus, jewellery worth lakhs looted

SINDRI: Gold worth lakhs of rupees were looted and a jewellery shop owner of Bihar’s Nawada was shot dead inside a bus on the GT road in the wee hours of Sunday under Topchanchi police station area of Dhanbad on Sunday. The deceased has been identified as Abhay Kumar who had boarded the bus from Kolkata.
According to the statement given to the police by Manish Kumar, who had gone to buy clothes and jewellery to Kolkata along with the deceased, they had boarded the Bihar Sharif-bound bus at Mohammed Ali Park in Kolkata.
“Around 4am when I woke up due to commotion, I saw two masked persons trying to snatch the bag containing the jewellery from Abhay and two others pointing pistols at the driver and his assistant in the bus. When Abhay kept resisting, the criminals shot at him from point blank range in his chest and snatched the bag. They made the bus stop near Satkira and alighted from the bus,” Manish told police.
The driver took the bus to a private hospital in Dumri under Giridih district where Abhay was declared brought dead. The bus then went ahead to Bihar Sharif with the other passengers.
Inspector in-charge of Topchanchi police station Suresh Munda said since the incident took place on a running bus, it is difficult to identify the exact spot where it happened. “But inquiry so far has revealed that the perpetrators had boarded the bus from Kolkata as passengers. The cost of looted gold and clothes are yet to be ascertained,” he said, adding police will lodge a case of loot and murder in the case.