40-year-old ambulance driver of Begusarai jail brutally murdered

BEGUSARAI: One Dharmendra Rajak (40), an ambulance driver of Begusarai jail, was brutally killed by criminals near Subhash Chowk under the Begusarai Town police station area on Monday night.
Police said the criminals cut the veins of Rajak’s wrists with a sharp-edged weapon and poured acid into his mouth. A police patrolling team later spotted Rajak lying in a pool of blood and took him to a local hospital, where the doctors declared him brought dead.The police team recovered an empty acid bottle and a piece of rope from the spot.
The incident occurred when Rajak was returning to Begusarai from Patna in the ambulance after dropping a jail inmate at Patna Medical College and Hospital. He was alone in the ambulance at the time of the incident.
Begusarai jail superintendent Brajesh Mehta said Rajak was a regular employee.
Begusarai SP Awakash Kumar said though the motive behind the murder was yet to be ascertained, prima facie the incident appeared to be a case of loot or personal enmity.
Rajak’s son Sandip, however, said his father had no enmity with anyone. Rajak was a resident of Mahmadpur area in Begusarai town. Angry over his murder, residents of the locality protested near the Begusarai DM office on Tuesday.
Begusarai SDM Sanjiv Kumar Choudhary said the victim’s son has lodged an FIR in connection with the case. “The administration will recommend all possible help under the government service code to Rajak’s family as he was a government servant,” the SDM added.
Mehta said the jail administration has also lodged a separate case as Rajak was on official duty.