Shopkeeper murder plot foiled Patna police save life

There was complete planning for killing a shopkeeper, Patna Police saved his life in time By Sabal Kishor Singh Edited By: Vyas Chandra Updated: Tue, 21 Oct 2025 22:16 (IST) Patna Police foiled the conspiracy to kill a shopkeeper. On receiving the secret information, the police immediately took action and arrested the conspirators. According to the police, the murder was carefully planned and timely action saved the shopkeeper’s life. The police are investigating the case and looking for others involved in the conspiracy. All the youths are in police custody. Jagran Samvad Sutra, Athmalgola (Patna). Not just one or two, but a total of 14 youths turned up to kill a shopkeeper. It was only by chance that the police came first and everyone was caught. The incident took place near the four lane near Phulelpur village of Athamalgola police station area. One loaded country-made pistol, six bicycles and 15 mobile phones were recovered from the arrested youth. Flood DSP 2 Abhishek Singh briefed the journalists about the incident at the Athmalgola police station. He said that the arrested criminals include Piyush Kumar alias Commando of Parwalpur in Nalanda, apart from Deepak Kumar, Rahul Pratap alias Monu, Gautam Kumar, Kundan Kumar, Sintu Kumar and Prince Kumar, Anshu Kumar and Vishal Kumar from different areas of Bakhtiyarpur. Remove advertisement Just read the news All the youths arrived on bicycles. DSP said that on Monday evening, the police received information that many youths riding bikes on the four-lane near Phulelpur village of Athamalgola police station area had gathered to commit some criminal incident. Considering the seriousness of the incident, its information was given to the senior officer. After this, on the instructions of Rural SP Vikram Sihag, a team led by DSP Naveen Kumar Singh along with DSP was assembled and cordoned off. There was a conspiracy to murder on the suspicion of the police informant. The police surrounded everyone on the quad. All these youths gathered with the intention of killing Chhotu Kumar, a shopkeeper in Four Lane. All the arrested youths are linked to the liquor trade. These people suspected that Chhotu Kumar was the one who informed the police about their liquor business, so they chose the time of Diwali night to get him out of the way, but the speed of the police foiled all their plans and the young man’s life was saved.