No breakthrough, lens on his ‘role in tenders’
A SENIOR POLICE OFFICIAL SAID THE MURDER WAS A ‘BLIND CASE’, MUCH LIKE THE 2018 MURDER OF AN INDUSTRIALIST
PATNA: The IndiGo airlines official, who was shot dead near his residence in Patna Tuesday evening, was allegedly involved in managing tenders in the rural works department, energy and irrigation departments, police sources have said, adding that they have started gathering details of contract killers for a breakthrough.
Rupesh Kumar Singh, IndiGo’s station manager at the Patna airport, was shot dead inside his SUV just outside the apartment complex in Punaichak locality where he lived.
Range IG Sanjay Singh said police were conducting raids to nab the culprits.
Rupesh was known to have links with several politicians across parties.
On Thursday, former deputy CM and Rajya Sabha member Sushil Kumar Modi visited Rupesh’s native village in Chapra district and met the grieving family members. “The incident is very sad and condemnable. The criminals would not be spared,” he said.
Countering the Opposition charges that the government had failed on law and order front, Modi reminded them of the RJD regime. “But in last 15 years, things have changed and criminals have been put in their place,” he said, while citing the example of former Siwan MP Mohd Sahabuddin.
Earlier in the day, Congress’s Rajya Sabha member Akhilesh Kumar Singh demanded a judicial probe by a sitting high court judge into the case.
A senior police official said the murder was a “blind case”, much like the sensational murder of Gunjan Khemka (36), member of a prominent business family of Bihar and a BJP activist.
Khemka was killed on December 20, 2018, at his factory in Hajipur industrial area.