The district police arrested Prakash Mishra, the main accused in transporter Birre Singh murder case and seven of his associates from Siwan district of Bihar, on Saturday afternoon when they were watching a movie at a cinema hall in Siwan town on Saturday.
Those arrested were identified as Prakash Mishra, Bhim Kamat, Titu Sardar, Jayprakash, Mohammed Ezaz, Moni Das, Raja Singh and Ravi Kumar. When Ezaz is a resident of Siwan, the rest of the accused are the residents of steel city. Police brought all the eight arrested persons from Siwan on a transit remand and produced them before the media before forwarding them to the judicial custody.
Prakash and his associates had murdered the 46-year-old transporter Birre, alias Dalbir Singh, at Jemco under Telco police station area late in the night December 10 last year in sequel to an old enmity. The police had already arrested three persons, Kunal Sharma, Ashok Rai and Naveen Pandey in connection to the murder just two days after the murder, and had seized arms and weapons used in the murder.
But the rest of the accused, including the main accused Prakash, had absconded.
Revealing about the breakthrough, senior Superintendent of Police Amol V Homkar said revenge killing was the motive behind the murder of Birre Singh. According to the Senior SP, as Birre used to help Jha in getting convicted Mishras, the latter had targetted Birre also their enemy and determined to kill him. But Mishra somehow managed to obtain parole from the Jharkhand HC and started trying to kill Birre.