Cops in the city, perhaps, love to solve petty crimes while high-profile murder or other major cases remain unsolved.

And the list of murder cases keeps piling on as the police fail to solve the cases or nab the culprits.

On May 9, 2012, Prem Singh, a well-known businessman from Patna City area, was found murdered. The crime followed just two days after the killing of Saket Gupta, another businessman said to be a business rival of Singh.

While the cops claimed success in the Gupta murder case, Singh’s killing has remained unsolved till date. Apart from the murder mystery, the men in uniform have hit the dead-end when it comes to cracking a few other high-profile cases.

“The police seem to be failing big time, from what I read in the papers and watch on television everyday. The police are doing their job by arresting criminals. But the focus should be towards swift detection of incidents bigger in nature and magnitude,” a businessman, who owns a medicine shop in the Bakarganj area, told The Telegraph.

If the trading fraternity has lost faith in the cops, the medical community, too, feel insecure after the Rajnish Ranjan murder. “The Bihar chapter of the Indian Medical Association has been protesting against the slow pace of police investigation. As a doctor myself, I am worried as the medical fraternity has been at the receiving end in this case,” Avinash Kumar, a doctor, said.

The murder of Kamal Sharma (58), an assistant at the Patna divisional commissioner office, in October had sent shockwaves among government employees.

“It is worrying. I am a state government employee and Sharma’s murder shocked us. I called the Danapur police sometime back but they said the case was being probed and they cannot divulge much,” a person, who works in the office of the Patna divisional commissioner, said.

Apart from murders, cases of siphoning off money from accounts of the Patna district administration are still confusing the men in uniform.

“If things are disclosed now, it will be difficult for the police to nab the mastermind. The two cases are big and take time. As said earlier, the police are close to solving the case,” an officer at the Gandhi Maidan police station said.