Two bike-borne gunmen, shot dead a shopkeeper, Naresh Prasad Kashera, in front of his shop-cum-house, on Thursday morning and fled away.
The incident took place in Noorah muhalla of Hazaribagh town which is densely populated and is counted in one of the oldest muhallas of the town. An FIR has been lodged in Sadar PS in which wife Girija Devi said that as per daily routine her husband went out for morning walk at about 4:30 am and after coming back he always open the shop.
On Wednesday, at about 5:30 am, when he was opening the shop two unknown gunmen opened fire at him from backside and when I and other family members came out of the house his body was lying on the verandah. The family members got stunned after viewing the situation and since no one was there so initially they were not in a position to say anything.
In the meantime, other residents of the muhalla reached there and found that Keshri has already died. Two kids, who were playing nearby are the eyewitnesses. When Naresh Prasad Keshri was opening the shop, two persons who were on a bike suddenly came and shoot him. They immediately fled away from the scene.The Kashera family is in this muhalla since 1974 and the residents of this muhalla said that he and his family members are of good nature.
“We have never found or heard about any disputed activity from any of the family members. His wife Girija Devi, was a teacher who has just retired on March 31st. The couple has adopted a son years ago, whose name is Prabhakar Kumar Kashera and who is married and has two kids now. After preliminary investigation, OIC Sadar PS said that Kashera family came here from Patna district and since they have adopted the son, dispute was going on in his family. It seems that police has chosen a line of investigation. Police team made a thorough investigation of the site but it is clueless yet.
After polling, the crime graph of Hazaribagh is going up and up day by day.Though the higher officials claim that they will nab the culprit very soon but in all the major cases happened in the last two weeks, police is still trying for success.