Week after IndiGo staffer’s murder, Bihar police still clueless

Patna, Jan 19 : The Bihar police are still clueless about the murder of IndiGo state head Rupesh Kumar Singh, even as seven days have passed since Singh was allegedly shot dead by criminals near the Shastri Nagar police station area in Patna.
A top official of Patna police said that a Special Investigation Team (SIT) has been set up which is probing the different angles into the case, including the deceased person’s involvement in government tenders and seizures of gold consignments from the Patna airport.
Vinay Tiwari, the City SP of Patna central, who is also heading the SIT, visited the Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) and the Water Resource Department on Monday and held meetings with the respective chief engineers. He asked them to provide all the details in a bid to make some inroads in the high profile case.
Sources said that these two departments generally offer Grade 3 tenders and their allotments are done at the district level. The Grade 3 tenders involve an amount of Rs 1 crore to Rs 3.5 crore.
After obtaining this information, separate SIT teams were dispatched to districts like Darbhanga, Madhubani, Chapra, Gopalganj, Sitamarhi etc. The teams will contact the executive engineers in these districts to know whether any contract was given to Singh’s brothers or any other relative.
The official said that Singh was involved in a heated exchange of words with a contractor of a parking lot at the Patna airport, who is being questioned. Besides, the SIT has also quizzed 50 employees and contractual workers in this connection.