ONE KILLED, THREE INJURED

Ara, 7 March 2023, (RNI): Some armed miscreants shot dead one person and injured three others including a woman at Salempur village under Chandi police station in the wee hour on Tuesday during ‘Holika Dahan.’ The deceased was identified as a farmer Dhani Yadav 40 son of Krishna Bhagwan Singh of Salempur village under Chandi police station while the injured were identified as Ravi Ranjan Kumar 16 cousin brother of the deceased and son of Surendra Singh of the village, Chandra Shekhar Kumar 16, nephew of the deceased and son of Lal Mohan Singh and Chinta Devi 55 wife of Prabhunath Singh of the same village. Police brought the body to the Ara Sadar Hospital for postmortem and admitted the injured there but the doctor referred Ravi Ranjan Kumar to the Patna Medical College and Hospital in precarious condition but the family members took him to a private nursing home at Ara instead. 

Ranjeet Yadav, cousin brother of the deceased said that when they were going for ‘Holika Dahan’ at about midnight on Monday, some children of another group started throwing cow dung on them which they objected. At this people of another group embroiled into argle-burgle with them and also fired. The villagers assembled there and the matter was subsided at that time. Again in the morning, people another group reached at the door of their house where they were sitting in the morning on Tuesday and started firing indiscriminately in which Dhani Yadav was killed and Ravi Ranjan Kumar, Chandra Shekhar and Chinta Devi were injured. Ranjeet Yadav blamed Amrudhi and Babua Ji of the village for firing.

Bhojpur SP Pramod Kumar Yadav said that two groups at Salempur village under Chandi police station clashed over throwing of water and dung on one another.  In the meantime, one group fired and one Dhani Yadav was shot dead while his cousin brother Ravi Ranjan Kumar was injured. An FIR has been lodged with the police under Chandi police station in this regard. Police are investigating the matter and also conducting raids to arrest the miscreants. The SP further said that the police have arrested some persons so far for interrogation. The SP also formed a police team to investigate matter and also to arrest the miscreants.