The police arrested all four assailants within 24 hours after they killed a 26-year-old youth at Vidyutnagar, Jamshedpur on Sunday. Those arrested on Monday were identified as Kuar Sabaiya alias Mathura, Bhagwan Sabaiya, Jogen Sabaiya and Goberdhan Kurli, all residents of Vidyutnagar.
The police also recovered two iron rods and many sticks used in the murder from their houses at Vidyutnagar on Monday. The murder happened in Vidyutnagar under Adityapur thana area in the adjoining Seraikela-Kharsawan district about five km away.
Revealing about the breakthrough, Seraikela-Kharsawan superintendent of police, Mohammed Arshi said that the murder victim Deepak Sardar was returning home after closing his stationery shop at Vidyutnagar at around 10 pm when the four assailants led by Mathura attacked him with iron rods and sticks. Arshi also informed that the attackers had inflected grievous injury to Deepak's younger brother Krishna Sardar.
"Having inflicted fatal injuries to Deepak, the four fled the scene, leaving two victims in a pool of blood. As soon as the news of the fatal attack spread, a patrolling party of Adityapur thana reached the spot and rescued the injured, and rushed them to the MGM Medical College Hospital. Deepak who had sustained grievous head injuries succumbed to his injuries in an hour," said Arshi while talking to the media.
Speaking about the reason behind the attack, Arshi stated that both Deepak and Mathura wanted to establish their supremacy in Vidyutnagar area and were in a rivalry. He said on the night of November 13, Deepak who was a resident of Krishnanagar in RIT thana area had clashed with Mathura at Vidyutnagar, triggering an enmity between the two.
"Two days later Mathura arranged his friends and planned the attack on Deepak for avenging the assault meted out to him on Friday night. Having assaulted the murder victim, the assailants had taken shelter at several slums in and around Adityapur. But a police team led by Adityapur thana OC, Rajendra Kumar Mahto took a statement from the victim's brother Sanjay Sardar and raided each and every probable hideout and arrested all the four by 5 am on Monday," the superintendent of police pointed out.
Arshi said the iron rods and sticks that they recovered were blood-stained, suggesting that these had been used in the murder of Deepak Sardar. He said the police would get a forensic test on the blood-stained iron rods and sticks so as to produce them as an exhibit during the trial of the murder case in court.
The senior police officer said, though the assailants, all in the age-group of 23-25 years, committed a murder, they did not have any police records as such.
All four were sent to the Seraikela Sadar Hospital for Covid-19 test and subsequently sent to Seraikela divisional jail after their production before a judicial magistrate in the afternoon.
