EC seeks report from DGP on murder of Jan Suraaj Party supporter
MOKAMA (Bihar),Oct 31: A day after gangster-turned-politician Dular Chand Yadav was allegedly shot dead during an election campaign in Patna’s Mokama area, the authorities constituted a medical board to supervise the post-mortem examination of his body on Friday, police said.
The autopsy of Yadav’s body will be conducted at a government hospital in Mokama, situated 100 kms from the city, Patna (Rural) SP Vikram Sihag told PTI.
“A medical board has been constituted. It will supervise the post-mortem examination of Dular Chand Yadav’s body at a government hospital on Friday. The body is being taken to the medical facility,” Sihag said.
Sihag said the police had learnt that Yadav had received a bullet injury in his foot but died after being run over by a vehicle.Yadav was campaigning for Jan Suraaj Party’s candidate Piyush Priyadarshi when the incident occurred.
When his body was being taken to the hospital from his native place in Mokama, a large number of people, including supporters of the party, were standing along the roadside.
RJD candidate from Mokama Veena Devi and her husband Suraj Bhan, also a former MLA, visited Yadav’s residence on Friday.The EC sought a report from the Bihar director general of police on the murder of a Jan Suraaj Party supporter in Mokama which led to a flare up in the area, officials said.
On Friday, stones were pelted at the car of Veena Devi, RJD candidate from Mokama.
The DGP has been asked to provide a detailed report at the earliest to the poll authority. (PTI)
