BHOJPUR POLICE ARREST TWO NAMED ACCUSED IN MURDER OF A PROPERTY DEALER

ARA (RNI) Bhojpur police arrested two named accused including a lady liner in connection with murder of a property dealer at Perhap village under Sahar police station in Bhojpur district in the morning on September 9, 2024 and recovered two mobiles from them. The arrested miscreants were identified as Suraj Rai son of Ramakant Rai and Kanti Devi wife of late Madan Rai of Perhap village. Later the police sent them to jail after interrogation.

Bhojpur SP Pramod Kumar Yadav said that a land dispute was going on in between cousin nephew and cousin uncle at Perhap village under Sahar police station of Piro Sub-Division in Bhojpur district. Owing to this, cousin nephew Priyanshu Rai shot at his cousin uncles Kamlesh Rai and Manoranjan Rai at Perhap village under Sahar police station in the morning on September 9, 2024 when they were going to Ara on a motorcycle for the Ara Civil Court. Kamlesh Rai died on spot while Manoranja Rai was seriously injured. After the incident, the SHO Sahar police station along with SDPO and other senior police officers rushed to the spot so that evidences could be collected for the Forensic Science Laboratory.

The SP stated that the initial investigation showed that father of Kamlesh Rah had three brothers but one of his brothers were issueless and Kamlesh Rai and Manoranjan Rai had taken over all his properties in their names and that was the bone of contention in between them and their cousin brother Priyanshu Rai and his family. Earlier, both the families had exchanged gunfire due to land and property dispute. In this context, when Kamlesh Rai and Manoranjan Rai were going to the Ara Civil Court on a motorcycle, Priyanshu and his aides waylaid in a bush nearby and as soon as Kamlesh Rai and Manoranjan Rai passed through the area, Priyanshu Rai and his aides fired on them in which Kamlesh Rai was killed on spot while Manoranjan Rai was badly injured. Later Priyanshu Rai and others escaped from the scene.

The SP further said that a special police team was formed under the SDPO to arrest Priyanshu Rai and his aides. He said that a named FIR was lodged with the police under Sahar police station in this regard on the statement of the family members of the deceased. After institution of FIR, the police team following scientific research arrested two persons Suraj Rai son of Ramakant Rai and Kanti Devi wife of late Madan Rai from Perhap village. Kanti Devi had played a role of liner.

It may be worth mentioning here that some armed miscreants had attacked the house of Kamlesh Rai in the month of April this year in which he was injured and his son Aditya Kumar was killed.