The police are investigating as to what led to the death of 52-year-old havildar Hareswar Ram who was killed in a firing at the Birsanagar police station premises late on Tuesday night. Following the incident, the Birsanagar police station’s munshi Akhilesh Dubey was also injured.

Ram who was posted at Birsanagar police station was rushed to Tata Main Hospital in a critical condition on Tuesday night.  The police declared him as dead.  He was shot in the chest by an Insas rifle.

Mystery shrouds his death as the havildar’s widow Usha Devi has in her statement given to the police alleged the munsi Dubey shot her husband to death. Senior superintendent of police, Amol V Homkar has set up a three-member probe team to investigate into the circumstances leading to the death of the havildar. The police are getting post-mortem of the body by a medical board so that the exact reason behind the firing incident leading to the death of the havildar could be

established.

A resident of Bihar, Usha Devi, claimed that her husband was planning to get his mother’s  gall bladder operated in Buxar district. “The office granted him 25 days leave however, the thana’s munsi was not ready to release him and was annoying him. This might have led a fight between the Munsi and my husband, leading the former to shoot the latter,” said the widow.

Usha Devi said that her husband was a confident man and can never commit suicide. She said her husband had called her on Tuesday night at 8 pm and informed that his leave was granted, but had suddenly stopped talking, leading her to suspect some foul play.

The police have already registered a case of suicide, but in view of the gun-shot injury on the thana’s munsi the police are focusing on what led to the death of the havildar.

“We have already registered a case of suicide in connection to the death of the havildar, we are working on different areas as to what led to the havildar’s death,” said Homkar.