Painter found murdered in Patna

PATNA: The police on Tuesday recovered the body of a 40-year-old man from a bush adjacent to Dumri railway crossing on Khagual-Bihta road under Neura police outpost in Patna rural.

The deceased was identified as Firoz Ansari, a resident of Munir Colony under Phulwarisharif police station area. His throat was slit with a sharp-edged weapon.

Neura police outpost SHO

Dharmendra Kumar

said the police received information from some local residents at around 11am that a body was lying near the railway crossing. He said the victim’s identity was ascertained with his Aadhaar card recovered from his possession.

“It seems he was killed somewhere else and the killers dumped his body near the railway crossing,” Kumar said.

The deceased relatives told the police that Firoz, a painter by profession, had left home on Sunday for work. The family members started searching him when he didn’t return home in the evening. Apprehending some foul play, they contacted the victim’s in-laws at Vyapur village under Shahpur police station area in Patna rural. “On Tuesday afternoon, the police informed us,” the deceased’s kin, Khursheed Ansari, said.

The SHO said the the CCTV footage was being obtained from the locality to trace the killers.


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