Bike-borne criminals opened firing on Chandragupt Singh (66), an Ajsu leader and father of fugitive gangster Akhilesh Singh at Sidhgora at around 8 pm. In the firing a 63-year-old man, Prafulla Mohanty, who was sitting in front of Singh's house along with about a dozen others, sustained bullet injury.
Mohanty a resident of Birsanagar and an office-bearer of the public Durga Puja Singh organises in Sidhgora, sustained the bullet in his right leg. As the news spread, a police party from Sidhgora police station rushed to the spot and took the injured to Tata Main Hospital. Mohanty is out of danger and has been admitted at the high dependency unit (HDU) of the hospital.
OC, Sidhgora police station , Ramashray Sharma said four criminals had come in two bikes and had fired six rounds at the spot where Singh was discussing about the Durga Puja preparation.
" We cannot say much on it as we are yet to establish about the identity of those who fired at the gathering where Chandragupt Singh was holding talks with them. Mohanty was sitting just near," said Sharma. Sharma said they have recovered two magazines of nine MM pistols from the spot.
Notably, Akhilesh's elder brother Amlesh was arrested from Bhubaneswar airport on Thursday and he is presently on three-day police remand here in Jamshedpur after he was brought here on transit remand on Saturday.
His son Akhilesh is accused in more than two dozen cases of grievous crime. The prominent cases in which he was wanted, include murder of shoe baron Ashish Dey, murder of Tata Steel security inspector Jairam Singh, murder of gangster Paramjeet Singh inside Ghaghidih Central Jail, the jailer Uma Shanker Pandey murder case in which he has already been sentenced to life imprisonment and kidnapping and murder of mobile merchant Om Prakas Kabra.
The don stepped into the crime world by abducting the merchant Om Prakash Kabra on July 21, 2001. After his name figured in the Kabra abduction case, he had surrendered in the court on August 6, 2001. He fled the judicial custody on February 18, 2002. He was arrested from Varanasi on October 7, 2004.