Suspended Police Sub-Inspector Manoj Gupta shot at his wife Punam Gupta, wife's alleged lover Chandan Kumar and Chandan's mother at an apartment in Kagalnagar under Sonari police station area on Friday morning.
Chandan's mother, who was about 65, died on the spot. On the other hand, Punam (40) and Chandan (42), who sustained bullet injuries in the abdomen, were rushed to the Tata Main Hospital. The assailant absconded soon after the attack.
The incident took place at the fourth floor of the Gautam Naulakha Apartment on F-Road in Kagalnagar at about 9.30 am.
The assailant Manoj Gupta (55) is a police sub-inspector and was posted at Gudri police station in Chaibasa, but currently is suspended since July 22 after his wife Punam had lodged an FIR with the Bistupur police station alleging him of torture.
According to police, the relationship between Manoj and Punam turned estranged due to an alleged affair of Punam with Chandan whom she would call brother.
Sources said as the relation between the couple deteriorated, Punam had been living at Chandan's house in Patna for the last two months, leaving her 17-year-old daughter and 14-year-old son with Manoj. The couple's elder daughter studies in a college in Delhi.
According to sources, Punam, Chandan and Chandan's mother had come to Manoj's residential flat at about 9 am today from Patna to settle the matter.
“As per the information, we gathered after Punam came along with her so-called brother at the Naulakha apartment, arguments between them started. The sub-inspector bolted the door from inside and started shooting at his wife, Chandan and also to the elderly lady," said a police official. Manoj fired all six rounds from his service revolver which he had kept in the almirah.
As the news spread, the neighbours rushed to the spot and rushed all the injured to Tata Main Hospital. The doctors on the emergency duty declared the elderly lady as brought dead.
A police party, led by the OC, Sonari police station, Niraj Prasad Sinha, rushed to the spot. Soon afterward, senior SP, Anoop Birtharay and superintendent of police (City) Subhash Chandra Jat had also rushed to the spot.
"From the preliminary investigation, we came to know that Manoj Gupta who is a suspended sub-inspector wanted to kill his wife Punam, but out of rage, he had also shot at a 42-year-old man, Chandan Kumar who is her so-called brother and Chandan's mother," said the senior SP.
He said the elderly lady whose name is yet to be established was killed on the spot, where as Punam and Chandan are shot at and injured.
Birtharay said the incident took place in front of the assailant's two daughters who are eyewitnesses of the case. The senior SP said they took Manoj's son who is a student of DAV Public School in Bistupur into safe custody.