Ranchi, July 11: The Bundu police station will have a new chief tomorrow to expedite the investigation into the assassination of Tamar MLA Ramesh Singh Munda even as the men in uniform are still clueless about his assailants.

Ravi Kant Prasad, the chief of Namkum police station, will take over as the officer in charge of Bundu police station tomorrow, while the police today carried out search operations to find the extremist leader Kundan Pahan, suspected to be involved in the murder of Munda.

Kundan has been named accused in the FIR lodged after the MLA’s murder.

Senior superintendent of police M.S. Bhatia said a breakthrough has not yet been made.

“Search operations are still on under the leadership of new sub-divisional police officer Ajit Peter Dungdung,” Singh added.

Apart from focusing on Pahan, police sources said, the probe was covering several other angles also.

“The police are trying to ascertain if the reason behind the murder was political or personal rivalry. A probe into all theories is on as Naxalites have not taken up the responsibility of the murder, which they generally do if they are involved,” said a police officer at Bundu.

The police are also grilling Umesh Chandra Gyani, the principal of the school where the assassination took place. The school clerk, Kameshwar Mahto, is also in police custody.

Human resource development minister Bandhu Tirkey today said he would give the compensation cheque of Rs 2 lakh to Dhananjay Patar Munda, the father of 17-year-old student Ramdhan Patar Munda, who also died in the extremist attack.

“I will personally go to the house of the boy and give the cheque on the boy’s dashkarma (a ritual performed after the death of a tribal) to express my solidarity with the family,” he said.

SS High School, Bundu, the spot of the assassination, will be named after the deceased Tamar MLA.

The legislator was gunned down by armed men, believed to be Maoists, while attending a programme at a school near the state capital.

“He was addressing the crowd when about 20 people rushed in and opened fire at the MLA from AK-47s and AK-56s,” a witness had said.