A 20-year-old youth, Mukesh Yadav, son of Bhola Yadav, resident of Kamal Tola Kathara in Bokaro district, who was working in Begusarai as a junior engineer in the Bihar Government reportedly died under mysterious circumstances in Chandrapura on Saturday morning.
Police said that Mukesh was returning to his home Kathara on August 21 on the eve of Rakshabandhan by Gorakhpur Hatia Maurya Express train and reached at Chanderpura railway station at 4am. Mukesh spoke to his father over mobile and told that he got down at Chandrapura station at four o’clock and will be home in an hour. But an hour later, his father’s phone call to his number was received by an auto driver.
The auto driver told his father that Mukesh had met with an accident and admitted in DVC Chanderpura hospital. The family members of Mukesh hurriedly reached the hospital.
While other important documents including cash and gold jewellery were found missing, Mukesh’s parents suspected that he could have been murdered after being robbed.
The younger brother of the deceased said that last year he had joined as a junior engineer in Begusarai,in Bihar.
On Rakshabandhan, he was returning home after taking a leave of two days. In this regard, station in-Charge Dular Chowde said that the driver of the auto in which the said youth had left the station who told about the accident is absconding.
According to the station in-charge, the driver of the auto from which Mukesh was taken to the hospital is being questioned in custody.
On the information of the incident, Bermo Circle Inspector Md Rustam said that an auto driver Raj Kumar Sao has been absconding since the incident. Police are raiding different locations to ensure his arrest. Once he is caught, the truth of the matter will come out, added Rustam.
The driver who took Mukesh to hospital has been taken into custody for questioning.
On the other hand, as soon as the news of the incident reached the village, hundreds of villagers started a ruckus at the concerned police station, which was pacified by the police after much effort.