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The frequent crime incidents in Bihar are not taking the name of stopping. On July 4, after the murder of Patna businessman Gopal Khemka, a prisoner was being killed at Paras Hospital in Patna on Thursday morning.
Between July 4 and July 17, a sand businessman, school operator and lawyer have been killed in Patna city alone. Meanwhile, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has said that Bihar is becoming ‘Crime Capital’.
The Bihar police is defending themselves as ‘murder of the criminal in gang war in the Paras Hospital’. At the same time, Union Minister and JDU MP Lalan Singh called it a ‘murder in a mutual dispute’.
The killings of recent killings in Bihar are being discussed at the Chowk intersections of Patna.
The reason for this is that Paras is a high security hospital. Family and friends also have to go through a fixed and hard process to meet the patients admitted here.
What happened in Paras Hospital?
Room number 209 of Paras Hospital, one of the big hospitals in Patna, resonated with a flutter of bullets at around 7.15 am on Thursday morning.
Waving five criminals waving pistols, he entered this room and kept shooting a person named Chandan Mishra very comfortably. Sajafta Chandan was originally from Buxar in Bihar.
There is no mask on the faces of criminals in the CCTV footage of the incident in the hospital. They reach out of the room and take out the pistol from their waist, enter the room and shoot and leave without any hurry or nervousness.
After this incident, Patna SSP Karthikeya Sharma said, “Chandan Mishra is a prisoner. He was out on parole. It seems that this murder has been done in Buxar’s gang war or mutual rivalry. The police have identified the criminals involved in the incident.”
Police have raided several mohallas and Buxar of Phulwari Sharif adjacent to Patna city to catch the criminals after this incident.
Who is Chandan Mishra?
Chandan Mishra was a resident of Sonvarsha in Buxar district of Bihar. He had terror in Buxar.
Ashutosh Kumar, who lives in Buxar, says, “It had become a criminal at the age of 16. Chandan and his friend Sheru’s gang was called Chandansheru Gang, but later there was a knock between Chandan and Sheru.”
Dheeraj Kumar, SDPO of Buxar Sadar, says, “Chandan had a criminal history. There were 25 cases registered on the police station of Buxar and Ara. In which 7 cases were related to the murder and Arms Act.”
In 2011, Chandan Mishra was serving a life sentence in Beur Jail in Patna in the murder of Rajendra Kumar, a businessman from Buxar.
After this incident, Chandan Mishra’s father Srikanth Mishra, who reached Paras Hospital, told the BBC, demanding police protection, “I am afraid that my only son was killed, I can also be killed. The administration can be caught in the criminal, we will be relieved in this.”
Murdered in Patna hospital earlier also
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The Chandan Mishra murder case has reminded of the murder of Braj Bihari Prasad, a minister in the Rabri Devi government of Bihar. He was murdered at IGIMS Hospital in Patna.
In 1998, he was in judicial custody and was admitted for treatment in IGIMS. The charge of this murder was on gangster Sriprakash Shukla, who later died in an encounter with UP STF.
In fact, in the 1990s, many Bahubali leaders were also seen in the field of politics.
In this era, Bihar was in the hands of Lalu Prasad Yadav and the opposition parties still accuse Lalu Prasad Yadav that they did not control crime in Bihar.
Now the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) of Lalu Prasad Yadav and other opposition parties are making the BJP-JDU alliance and Nitish Kumar.
Big criminal incidents in Bihar in recent times
Talking between July 4 to July 17, businessman Gopal Khemka, sand businessman Ramakant, lawyer Jitendra Mahato, school director Ajit Kumar were killed in the capital Patna.
According to local reports, there have been at least 50 murders in the state in the last 15 days.
Whereas in Patna alone, there have been 14 murders between July 1 and July 16.
The opposition is an attacker on the frequent criminal incidents in Bihar.
Meanwhile, a statement of ADG (headquarters) Kundan Krishnan is under considerable discussion on the crimes happening in the state.
He said in a press conference on 16 July, “There have been murders in April, May, June. Until the rain, the process of killings continues because farmers do not work. Farmers get busy after rain. The media is being killed on murder and there are elections at the moment.”
NDA partner Chirag Paswan has described Kundan Krishnan’s statement as ‘condemnable and unfortunate’ and described the falling law and order of Bihar as a ‘serious concern’.
At the same time, Tejashwi Yadav said, “The entire law and order has been disorder. Bihar Police take leave, which says that crimes happen according to the weather.”
In the middle of all this, according to the final published report of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) in the year 2022, according to data from 2006 to 2022, 53,057 murders took place in the state.
Leader of Opposition Tejashwi Yadav has been issuing the crime bulletin of Bihar till a few days ago, claiming that Nitish Kumar has been raped by 60 thousand murders and more than 25 thousand rapes during the twenty years of rule.
On these claims of Tejashwi, JDU spokesperson Pooja Patrick told the BBC, “The rate of crime has decreased in our time. When Lalu ji’s reign was not the same, the population was not as much, now the population has increased. The population has increased. The crime rate was high but now it is reduced.”
‘More perception is important than data’
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In the midst of this game of data, former Bihar DGP Abhyanand tells the BBC, “I did not give much importance to the data in my entire policing career. I think public perception is the most important thing. If a common Bihari feels that he is safe then law and order is fine. If this does not, the law and order is bad”
When Nitish Kumar took power in the year 2005, the crime was found to be controlled by the Arms Act, speedy trial, especially organized crime.
Nivedita Jha, a writer of the book ‘Patna Diary’ and senior CPI leader, says, “It is terrible to kill someone by entering the hospital. It shows that the criminals are encouraged and our government -police system has failed.”
The Bihar Police has announced the creation of a ‘contract killer’ cell, so that the growing contract killing or betel nut can be controlled.
Meera Dutt, the editor of search magazine and Deputy Registrar of Patna High Court, says, “The culture of crime has increased in the state. Unemployment, administrative corruption and long -term cases have increased due to pending cases. Since our leaders only cheat small criminals, which has also increased political accented. We should see what is the caste of shooters?”
It is clear that at present, the fine threads of crime and crime in caste, politics, politics in Bihar seem to be very complicated.
Published by collective newsroom for BBC