Bihar: Notorious criminal Babar Miyan shot dead in Siwan gang war

PATNA: Notorious criminal Babar Miyan (40) was shot dead on Bypass Road under Sarai police outpost area of Town police station in Siwan on Saturday.
Police said at least two dozen criminal cases of heinous nature were registered against Babar with different police stations in Siwan. They said 19 cases against him are registered with Mufassil police station alone. He was evading arrest in a kidnapping case registered with Jamo police station in Siwan last month.Police suspect the Jamo victim had already been killed but the body could not be recovered yet.
Police said Babar had also once worked for late don-turned-politician Mohammad Shahabuddin.
Sarai police outpost in-charge Tanveer Alam said Babar was shot twice on both sides of his abdomen. “Police rushed him to Sadar hospital but doctors declared him dead,” Alam said.
He said a commuter informed the outpost around 1pm that a person was lying in a pool of blood on the stairs of a building under construction on the roadside.
“Babar’s bike was found parked on the roadside hardly 10 metres away from the spot. It seems he was shot at very close range after which the shooters fled. No one is the eyewitness. No gunshot was heard by anyone,” he said, adding police also failed to find any empty cartridge there.
Alam said Babar had left home at Biduti Hata under Mufassil police station area in Siwan between 10 and 11am on Saturday. “His cellphone was not found from the spot. Police have got his number from the family and are working to get the call detail records,” he said.
He said police suspect it a case of gang war. He said Babar had spent 5 years in jail and had come out in 2014.
Meanwhile, Jamo police station SHO Ashok Kumar Dwivedi said one Mohammad Riyazuddin of Sarai locality had gone missing in the last week of April. “Riyazuddin was also accused in at least 14 cases of murder, loot and extortion. He had come out of jail hardly a month back after five years. Though his body has not been recovered yet, we strongly suspect that he had been murdered soon after the kidnapping,” he said.
Dwivedi said Babar was one of the six prime accused in the case. “Babar and three more accused were still evading arrest. Probability is high that Riyazuddin’s associates eliminated him to take revenge,” he added.