The family members said that Jitendra had stopped practising law for the last two years. “He would visit the tea stall often, and it seems that the assailants were aware of his routine and attacked him while returning home after having tea,” a close relative of the deceased told this reporter.The incident took place within 24 hours after the killing of a BJP functionary under Pipra police station limits in Rural Patna.Surendra Kewat, 52, a resident of Sheikhpura village, was attacked by armed criminals while returning home from his farmland late on Saturday night.He was rushed to AIIMS-Patna for treatment, but he succumbed to injuries.R K Pal, Station House Officer (SHO) of Pipra police station, under whose jurisdiction the area comes, said that the assailants fired at Kewat from close range when he was returning home from his farmland on his motorbike.“Motive of the assailants behind Kewat’s killing is yet to be ascertained,” he added.On July 4, a prominent businessman Gopal Khemka was shot dead near his apartment on Exhibition Road under Gandhi Maidan police limits. He was attacked when he was waiting for the security guard to open the main entrance to enter the apartment premises. The police later arrested the mastermind and alleged shooter in the case.The back-to-back murders in the state capital has caused much embarrassment to the leaders of the ruling dispensation and top police brass.Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary said that murders due to personal enmity can’t be prevented. However, police have initiated action in all the cases. Earlier, Opposition leader Tejashwi Prasad Yadav slammed Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for his failure to check crime in the state. “Nobody is safe in Bihar these days,” he posted on X.
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