Profile photo of deceased ward member Virender Kumar
– Photo: Amar Ujala
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In Samastipur, a dead body was found hanging from an electric pole in the garden of a panchayat ward member. On the other hand, a similar story happened in Darbhanga in which the dead body of a paan shopkeeper was found hanging from a tree. In both the cases people say that they have been murdered. The deceased has been identified as Virendra Kumar (23), son of Shatrughan Das, a resident of ward number 4 of Kalonjar panchayat under Chakmehsi police station area of Samastipur district. Relatives say that he was murdered in electoral rivalry.
these are the dead
The deceased has been identified as Virendra Kumar (23), son of Shatrughan Das, a resident of ward number 4 of Kalonjar panchayat under Chakmehsi police station area of Samastipur district. Relatives say that he was murdered in electoral rivalry. At the same time, near Shubhankarpur Choriya temple of Bajitpur Ratnapatti of Nagar police station area in Darbhanga, the dead body of a young man was hanging from a mango tree with the help of a plastic rope. The relatives have identified the deceased as Ramsevak Bhagat (40), a resident of Taralahi.
was missing for two days
As soon as the incident was reported, the local police reached the spot. Local people say that there is a paan shop in Kelwa Gachi of Ramsevak Bhagat Bishanpur police station area. He was missing from his house for the last two days. His family members were searching for him at their own level, but no one was able to trace him anywhere.
The police had returned from the police station saying that it was another police station area.
The family members say that they had also complained about his missing in the city police station, but they were averted by the police saying that this matter belongs to Bahadurpur police station, go there and get the case registered.
Now the police officers arrived after getting the dead body
The scooty of the deceased was seen near Neema Road on Saturday morning. When people searched around, his body was found hanging from a mango tree. On receiving the information of the incident Shubhankarpur TOP, police and DSP of Sadar police station along with their team reached the spot. At present, the police is engaged in the process of conducting the post-mortem of the dead body.
The wife of the deceased accused the police of negligence
Chanda Devi, the wife of the deceased, said while crying that she had four daughters and a son. He used to maintain everyone by running a paan shop, now how will his family run? She said that her husband was missing for the last two days. We were doing a lot of research from our side, but could not find any information. He alleges that we had also gone to the city police station, but the police kept on evading.
Police protests at the scene
When the police reached the spot, the relatives protested fiercely. DSP Amit Kumar was forced to go there with the police of several police stations. Relatives complained to the personnel of the police station and said that the police did not pay attention in time, and kept making us walk from one police station to another. DSP Amit Kumar has assured him of appropriate action after investigating the incident. He said that the team of FSL has also been called. Whatever appropriate action will be taken in the matter after investigation.
