Jeweller shot in broad daylight

Samastipur/Patna: Three unidentified bike-borne criminals shot dead a jeweller at his shop at Sardarganj Chowk under the Dalsingsarai police station area in Samastipur on Friday.
The deceased was identified as Ramesh Prasad, 45. He was sitting inside his shop located in downtown Dalsingsarai when the criminals opened indiscriminate fire on him in broad daylight.One Bharat Paswan, a 42-year-old vendor, also sustained bullet injuries as the criminals shot at him when he rushed to rescue the jeweller.
Dalsingsarai SDPO Anwar Javed said eyewitnesses told police that half an hour before the killing, Prasad had a heated argument with few people inside his shop, after which they had left the place.
“Around 2.30pm, three men reached the spot on a mobike and shot at the trader. He was rushed to a hospital, but was declared brought dead by doctors,” said the SDPO.
Dalsingsarai police station SHO Subodh Chaudhary said the jeweller was said to have been shot thrice. “But only the postmortem report will reveal the exact number of gunshot injuries he sustained,” the SHO said and added police were busy controlling the law and order situation after the killing.
On October 8, three unidentified bike-borne criminals shot dead Samastipur district’s Hindustan Unilever distributor Awadesh Poddar (39) after chasing him for several metres near Haripur Chowk under the Pusa police station area in the district.
Sadar SDPO Mohammad Tanveer said ten people were arrested in this connection. They include shooter Abhishek Kumar. “The mobike and the weapon used in the murder of Poddar have also been recovered by police,” he said, adding Valmiki and Ravi, who earlier worked as Poddar’s sales manager, had plotted the murder.
Valmiki and Ravi have also been arrested, SDPO Tanveer said and added a police team had been sent to Delhi to nab their accomplice Sooraj Kumar.