Two shot dead in gang war in Patna

PATNA: Motorcycle-borne criminals shot dead two people, including a police informer with criminal antecedents, after intercepting the car in which they were travelling near Chowk Kasera weighing station under the Bypass police station area in Patna on Saturday night. Police sources said the killings were fallout of a gang war.
The victims were identified as Mastu Verma alias Abhishek Verma (48) and Sunil Kumar (35).Sunil’s sister and his wife were also inside the car, but they escaped unhurt.
Mastu was a police informer while Sunil owned a cellphone shop. Police sources said it was Mastu whom the criminal wanted to kill, but Sunil was also shot dead as he was travelling with him.
Sources said Sunil was driving the car and taking Mastu to Rajendra Nagar terminal where the latter was supposed a Delhi-bound train. Both were residents of Chowk Shikarpur.
SHO Sanjeev Sinha said police recovered at least six empty cartridges from the spot. “Sunil’s wife told police that one criminal on bike had stopped their car, but locals said there were two criminals,” the SHO added, adding raids were on to arrest the killers.
Mastu was also an accused in BJP neta-cum-industrialist Gunjan Khemka murder case. Khemka was shot dead in Vaishali in December 2018.