The sensational killing of a former Mayor of Muzaffarpur, Samir Kumar, by AK-47 on Sunday in the north Bihar town has once again exposed the fact that the criminals are going bold and fearless in Bihar.
The use of sophisticated weapon in hitting the targets in several murders in recent times also showed that AK-47 is in the possession of the criminals in abundance.
In most of the recent high profile murders in Bihar, AK-47 was used. This dreaded weapon is not only being smuggled in to the State but also assembled and sold for a price of Rs 3-4 lakh.
Recently some assault rifles were seized in Munger which had been smuggled from Madhya Pradesh and the involvement of an ordnance factory was also suspected.
According to eye witnesses Samir was murdered near Banaras Bank Chowk in Muzaffarpur by four bike borne criminals and they fired no less than 50 rounds killing former mayor and his driver on the spot.
Only a couple of days back one history sheeter Tabrez, said to be sharp shooter of former Siwan MP Mohammad Shahabuddin was gunned down just behind the Kotwali police station in broad day light. Some of the criminals arrested for killing Tabrez revealed they wanted to use AK-47 but could not because of the crowd there so used revolver. This was an admission that they too had this sophisticated weapon. Last month an RLSP functionary was murdered in Hajipur by AK-47 and an RJD worker in Samastipur.
“Criminals no more use country made pistol and they prefer AK-47,” commented RLSP chief and Union Minister Upendra Kushwaha who came down heavily on the Bihar Government for poor law and order situation. RJD vice president Raghubansh Prasad Singh reacted, “It is beyond doubt that criminals have more AK-47 than the security forces.”
While Muzaffarpur observed bandh on Monday, all the opposition parties strongly condemned the “governance” of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar leaving little space for NDA leaders to defend the Government.
After the recovery of eight AK-47 in Munger and arrest of some accused names of some white collared people and politicians have been revealed by the arrested persons which exposed that this weapon was not only being purchased by the Naxalites but also the politicians and their musclemen in Bihar and Jharkhand. DGP K S Dwivedi has handed over the monitoring of the investigation into the smuggling of the AK-47s to Munger range DIG Jitendra Mishra who is likely to submit his report to the headquarters in next few days.
What is more intriguing that the police have far badly failed to check the crime despite a high level marathon meeting by Nitish last week during which the CM gave a stern warning to IGs, DIGs and SPs.
