THE JHARKHAND STORY NETWORK
Daltonganj, Jan 19: Palamu police are all out to track the killer or killers who shot a 26-year-old trader Shubham Kumar to death in the busy town of Chhaterpur on January 18.
The trader was shot at in his car and later succumbed to injuries en route to a higher centre in Ranchi at Satbarwa.
Shopkeepers and traders shut down their shutters for a couple of hours protesting this daylight murder.
However, on the assurances of SP Reeshma Ramesan, they agreed to keep business back to normalcy.
FIR filed
The SP has formed an 8-member SIT headed by the SDPO Chhaterpur Ajay Kumar. She said the SIT has 2 inspectors of police and 6 sub-inspectors of police. She declined to make any further elaboration saying the investigation is on.
An FIR was lodged too. Details of the FIR could not be obtained.
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Three bullets of different bores
The post mortem was done this morning by a board of three doctors, namely Vijay Singh, R K Ranjan and Rohit Pandey of the MMCH Daltonganj.
The doctors of this board have retrieved three bullets from the body but what was most surprising was that the bullets retrieved were of different bores!
The retrieval of different bores bullets from the body of Shubham Kumar indicated there could be firing at him with two different weapons having different bores as one weapon used in crime can’t have different bores.
Sources said if one shooter had two weapons, one each in his hand to shoot him in any celluloid film style or were there two killers using weapons of different bores to flatten him simultaneously?
Calculated act
One thing was very evident in this daylight murder. It was intense animosity, vendetta and revenge as the killer or killers were in no mood to give Shubham, the target, to die another day.
It was a cold-blooded murder conceived, planned and executed with deadly clinical precision.
The killer or killers had full knowledge in advance for Shubham Kumar as to where he would be in Chhaterpur market on Thursday.
One bullet remained in the spine which could not be retrieved. A couple of bullets that scratched past the body of Shubham exited on their own.
