Two arrested in Ara shooting case

Praveen Ranjan / TNN / Mar 14, 2026, 00:18 IST

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Ara: Police on Friday arrested two of the three named accused in connection with the shooting of a 25-year-old man on the eve of Holi at Bheldumra village under Ara Mufassil police station in Bhojpur district. One of the accused had already surrendered before the Ara court under police pressure.According to police, the arrested men were identified as Ujjwal Kumar, son of Manoj Kumar Singh, and Pintu Sharma, son of Virendra Sharma, both residents of Badkadumra village. Police seized two country-made pistols and 10 live cartridges from their possession.Mufassil SHO Ramkalyan Yadav said the victim, Aadarsh Anand (25), was shot on March 3 while sitting at a kirana shop in Bheldumra village, where he has been living at his maternal grandmother’s house since childhood. He sustained a bullet injury to his stomach and is undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Ara, he added.Police said the incident stemmed from an altercation with the accused youths.

About the AuthorPraveen Ranjan

Associated with the TOI for the last nine years, since April 2016 and covers all kinds of news reports related to the Bhojpur district in Bihar, be it crime stories, local court's Judgements, politics or social issues, particularly highlighting the issues faced by the most downtrodden sections of the society such as the Musahar community and the work being done for their upliftment by some good Samaritans. The Padma Shri awardee from the Bhojpur district had acknowledged and appreciated some of these articles published in the TOI that gave his noble work for the upliftment of the Musahar community national recognition.

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