Brajesh Kumar (30) and Mukesh Kumar (40), who labored for BSc C&C agency, have been monitoring work on a stretch of street at Gandah village below Bahedi police station when 4 motorcyles-borne assailants shot them lifeless round 12.45 pm on Saturday and drove away. Police stated the assailants used AK-47 rifles.

As the killing led to sturdy reactions in Patna — with the BJP focusing on the Nitish Kumar authorities — the state police bought its Special Task Force to help the native police within the case.

Police suspect the involvement of the dreaded Santosh Jha gang, which operates below the title of “Bihar People’s Liberation Army” and is discovered to be concerned in a number of instances of extortion, within the killing.

Bihar DGP PK Thakur stated: “It is not an act of Maoists but of a professional criminal gang. We have been questioning some people and may get vital leads soon.”

BSc C & C has been engaged by the state authorities for a number of street tasks — together with a 120-km stretch of State Highway-88 between Begusarai and Darbhanga — by which the 2 slain engineers have been working.

Following the killing, work has stopped on the stretch, with workers demanding safety cowl.

The police have recovered a hand-written pamphlet from the location, studying “Mukesh Pathak Zindabad… tum jahan jahan jaoge, humein wahan wahan paoge (wherever you go, you will find us).” Mukesh Pathak is a key member of the Santosh Jha gang.

Jha, wished in a number of instances of extortion and homicide, is at the moment lodged in Gaya jail.

This is the second suspected assault by the gang after formation of the Grand Alliance authorities. On December 7, a supervisor with Rajiv Gandhi Vidyutikaran Yojana was shot lifeless at Sheohar,

In the newest case, though the police haven’t named anybody within the FIRthey’ve questioned about half-a-dozen folks, together with some family members of the jailed gangster who dwell in Gangdah village.

On Sunday, the federal government suspended police station in-charge of Baheda, Ramashankar Singh, who had ordered removing of three Bihar Military Police personnel from the development firm’s base camp at Jhorsu, about 10 km from the spot, only a day earlier than the killing.
The firm had bought the safety cowl after complaints of threats.

Although the agency had not made a proper grievance concerning any extortion demand, police sources alleged that it had obtained a Rs 1-crore extortion demand from Mukesh Pathak.

They stated Pathak had additionally reportedly threatened a number one firm working below the Rajiv Gandhi Vidyutikaran Yojana in North Bihar.
A senior police officer investigating the case stated: “The modus operandi clearly suggests involvement of Mukesh Pathak from Santosh Jha gang, which generally employs youths in their 20s.”

Gandah-Shivram panchayat mukhiya AK Yadav stated: “We held a protest at the moment towards the lackadaisical strategy of the administration. We are in a state of shock and wish the federal government to catch the culprits. We need our roads constructed. After all, we voted for Nitish Kumar to make sure good regulation and order situation.”

Devendra Yadav, one other villager, stated: “If Nitish Kumar cannot provide us security, he would lose our confidence.” He stated kids at a close-by college, who heard the gunfire throughout their noon meal break, have been in a state of shock.

While engineer Brajesh was a resident of Dehri-on-Sone in Rohtas, his colleague Mukesh was from Begusarai and was working as a marketing consultant.

Brajesh had returned to obligation on Friday after celebrating the second birthday of his daughter Divya. He had been working with the development firm for the previous 4 years.