KUMUD JENAMANI
Jamshedpur, June 30: In a late-night shooting, former Ichagarh legislator Arvind Singh’s brother-in-law was gunned down by unidentified criminals at Adityapur, triggering a sensation in the densely-populated area and beyond.
The victim, Kanhaiya Singh (52) was attacked by three armed men at about 10.30 pm while he was negotiating the stairs to his residential flat at Hari Om Nagar under Adityapur thana in the adjoining Seraikela-Kharsawan district close to the steel city.
Kanhaiya was soon rushed to the Tata Main Hospital, about eight minutes drive from the spot, where the doctors on emergency duty declared him as “brought dead.”
The assailants had rained shots at the victim from close range, causing three of them to hit him, including one of them in the head.
Kanhaiya who was a civil contractor had his bodyguard, but he was attacked minutes after he left the latter before returning home on the third floor of the five-storeyed apartment. The assailants were already in the apartment and were waiting at the stairs to ambush him. Having shot the contractor, the assailants fled the scene on foot.
Soon after the shooting took place, Adityapur thana OC, Rajan Kumar reached the spot followed by senior police officers, including the Seraikela-Kharsawan SP Anand Prakash.
Although the police talked to residents of the apartment and people who live in the vicinity but have not been able to get any clue about the assailants.
“We are yet to get any lead to the murder of Kanhaiya Singh. We are trying to detect the attackers by scanning CCTV footage, but have not got any meaningful footage as the electricity supply was tripped in that area during the period of the gunshot attack,” said Rajan Kumar.
The body of the slain contractor is still at the Tata Main Hospital morgue and the police will shift it to the Seraikela Sadar Hospital mortuary for postmortem.
The former legislator, Arvind Singh who is popularly known as Makkhan Singh is also a leading builder seemed to be shell shocked as his brother-in-law was gunned down at the residential premises itself.
