2 brothers shot dead at wedding reception
PATNA, Feb. 24 -- Two brothers were gunned down by unidentified assailants at a wedding reception in Bihar's Shahpur village late on Sunday evening.
The incident took place at Shahpur, under Gopalpur police station of East Patna. The reason behind the incident was said to be an old land dispute of six-bigha worth crores between two families of Rajkishore alias Raju Rai and Krishna Rai alias Krishna.
The matter was in court. Recently, court's judgement came in the favour of Raju Rai.
Deceased were identified as Manish Kumar (25) and his younger brother Manjeet Rai (20).
The victims' brother Rajnish Kumar claimed his family had won the land case twice, but the dispute did not end and it kept pending for 20 years. "Patna police administration never helped nor took action against the culprits earlier. It gave assurance only that the court's order would be implemented but it all went in vain," said Rajnish, adding the recent judgement came in his favour three months ago.
According to the eyewitnesses, It was about nine o'clock. Manish and Manjit were having dinner with other guests.
Around 12 armed men came, surrounded the place. As soon as the two brothers got up from there and proceeded to wash their hands, they were fired upon. The firing led to a stampede in the banquet.
Manjit was the first to fall on the ground after being shot.
The gunmen then dragged Manish out of the venue holding his collar to a nearby tube well and shot from point blank.
Villagers said 26 to 27 rounds were fired. "Police reached the spot and took the duo to the hospital, where they were declared brought dead," said City SP (East) Parichay Kumar....
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