Jharkhand News: Youth shot dead after brawl during boozing in Jamshedpur
KUMUD JENAMANI Advertisement Jamshedpur, July 10: A 25-year-old youth was shot dead following a brawl between friends at Carriage Colony under…
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KUMUD JENAMANI
Jamshedpur, July 10: A 25-year-old youth was shot dead following a brawl between friends at Carriage Colony under the Burmamines thana area late in the night of Tuesday.
The victim was identified as Shubham Kumar, a resident of East Plant Bustee in Burmamines.
The murder took place at Carriage Colony Football Maidaan at around midnight, triggering a sensation in the adjoining residential area.
Shot in the head after a brawl
According to police, four youths namely Salil, Sagar, Shubham and Pavan had assembled at the football maidaan for boozing.
While consuming liquor, a brawl broke out over something between the four who were all friends together. When the tussle spun out of control, one of the four identified as Salil took out a pistol from his waist and fired a shot in Shubham’s head from point-blank range.
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On being shot, Shubham fell on the ground in a pool of blood when the three others fled the scene.
The sound of firing in the serene atmosphere had drawn the attention of some local residents who came to the spot to find a youth in a pool of blood. They rushed the gunshot victim to Tata Main Hospital where the doctors on emergency duty declared him as brought dead.
Police hunting assailants
OC, Burmamines thana, Alok Dubey said the police could know about the incident at about 2.00 am today and have been trying to detect the case ever since.
“The assailants have been identified and we are just trying to arrest them all by conducting raids at their probable hideouts,” said the OC while talking to The Jharkhand Story.
Dubey stated that the reason behind the brawl between the friends could not be known yet and this can be known after any of the absconding assailants is nabbed.
Shubham Kumar would also stay at Carriage Colony before shifting to the adjoining East Plant Bustee recently.
