Man kills girlfriend, self in Bihar's Muzaffarpur

PATNA

: A 35-year-old man shot dead his girlfriend and then himself with a countrymade pistol at a hotel under

Kazi Mohammadpur

police station area in Muzaffarpur town on Monday. The deceased were identified as Manish Kumar Srivastava and Rani Kumari alias Nisha Kumari (30). While Manish belonged to Kanti police station area, Rani hailed from PNT Colony under Town police station area.


The police said the incident came to light when a staff of the hotel at Aghoria Bazar knocked the door of room number 301 for sanitation. When the occupants didn’t respond, the hotel manager informed the police who broke open the door and found them dead on the bed. A countrymade pistol and two used cartridges were recovered from the room.

Kazi Mohammadpur police station SHO Md Salauddin said the two were in a relationship for long. They had cheked in the room around 7pm on Sunday and were supposed to vacate it around 1pm on Monday. The bodies were handed over to their relatives after postmortem.

An FSL team visited the spot and collected samples. “The man was suffering from depression,” an investigating officer told this newspaper.