Anomalies in MLA’s claims

GAYA: Even as the Gaya police await the forensic report on the alleged attempt on the life of Belaganj MLA Surendra Prasad Yadav around Sunday midnight, discrepancies in the version of the ex-minister’s three security guards have made things difficult for the special investigation teams constituted to crack the case.
The three guards accompanied the ex-minister at the time of the road hold-up that preceded the attack on the MLA's vehicle.The MLA is said to have told police that his attackers fired hundreds of rounds and he along with others miraculously escaped unhurt. However, not a single used cartridge was found at the place of occurence. It is highly unlikely that the criminals collected all the used cartridges from the scene in the darkness of night before escaping to safety.
Not only that, hundreds of rounds were claimed to have been fired, but only the rear glass of the MLA’s vehicle has broken.
The Belaganj MLA earlier told this correspondent that he asked his security guards to fire only in the air so that the bullets might not hit any innocent. However, human behaviour experts said, such humane response was not expected from a human being in the face of real threat to life.
Surendra is regarded as an authority on firearms, their make, range and operational protocol etc so much so that when police recovered a rich haul of foreign weapons from the A P Colony house of a dreaded outlaw in the 1990s, the then Gaya SP, P R K Naidu, in the presence of this correspondent called Surendra to enlighten him about the operational protocol of the seized weapons. And Surendra did it with expertise.
When contacted, Gaya SSP Garima Malik on Tuesday afternoon refused to share investigation details with this correspondent.