Jamshedpur murder: Adityapur police identify killers of Kanhaiya Singh

Mail News Service

Jamshedpur, June 30: Adityapur police have got vital clues into the murder of Kanhaiya Singh, brother-in-law of former Ichagarh MLA Arvind Singh, in Hariom Nagar yesterday. They said the culprits would soon be behind the bars.

Sources said police were close to solving the case and that they may soon address media on their breakthrough in the case.

Kanhaiya Singh, a 52-year-old contractor and businessman was reportedly shot dead by three assailants on his return from work when he was about to enter his flat on the third floor of a residential building around 9.45 pm on Wednesday.
On hearing the gunshot, neighbours came out and rushed Singh to Tata Main Hospital in Jamshedpur, but doctors there declared him ‘brought dead’.
According to the officer-in-charge of Adityapur police station, Rajan Kumar, the victim’s driver told the police that he had seen three people, all faces covered, fleeing the building, when he was parking Singh’s car on the ground floor.
The officer also said that the identities of the killers have been established with the help of CCTV cameras installed near the crime scene.
We are investigating the matter from all possible angles. The killers will be nabbed soon, he stated.
Meanwhile, supporters of Arvind Kumar Singh, a three-time legislator from Ichagarh constituency of Seraikela-Kharswan district, and other local political leaders, cutting across party lines, took to the streets during the day, demanding immediate arrest of the culprits.
About ten incidents of murder have been reported in Adityapur in the last three months, creating a sense of fear and insecurity among common people, some of the demonstrators said.

Adityapur police registered an FIR against unidentified persons on the information of Archana Singh, wife of the deceased. One of the assailants held a pistol in his hand while the other two held choppers. When Archana raised an alarm on seeing the murder, the culprits ran down the stairs to escape. Kanhaiya’s bodyguard Mrityunjay Kumar Singh and drier Mukesh ran saw the killers running away. They took Kanhaiya to TMH with the help of neighbours.