Governor Syed Ahmed, his Advisors Madhukar Gupta and Anand Shankar along with the top officials paid rich tributes to slain SP Amarjeet Balihar at JAP-I ground on Wednesday in Ranchi. The Body of 53 year old Balihar was brought to Ranchi where the dignitaries and the police officials paid last tributes to him. later he was laid to rest in peace at Christian cemetery with full State honours at Kantatoli.
Expressing solidarity with the family of Balihar, the Governor said that he was with them in this hour of grief. The Governor also called it an unfortunate incident and said that the slip-up will be inquired, if needed.Police department is under shock after the brutal killing of Balihar. “It’s a personal loss; he was a jolly person and a friend of friends,” said his college batch-mate also an IPS Prashant Karn.
JMM supremo Shibu Soren and Mathura Mahto were also the forerunners to pay tributes to Balihar.later, Balihar’s body was taken to his home at Pathalkudua area where the last rituals were performed. His neighbours across religious lines thronged at his home to take a glimpse of the slain IPS. A sense of shock and grief could be sensed clearly on the faces of the visitors at his home.
Assembly speaker CP Singh, former Deputy CM and JMM leader Sudheer Mahto and former Chief Minister Arjun Munda along with the other leaders also visited his home to pay last tributes to the slain IPS. “It is really a shocking news, the Government machinery needs to take lessons from such incidents in future,” said Munda.
Balihar was laid to rest in peace at Christian cemetery with full state honors on Wednesday evening at Kantatoli.A volley of bullets had hit Balhiar’s Scorpio from the surrounding Kathikund forests while he was returning from a meeting with the Dumka DIG. The attack was so sudden that his men did not even have the chance to fight back. The SP and five others died on the spot. Two policemenwere critically injured and are in hospital.