Patna: An Septuagenarian was shot dead and his two sons were injured after they were suspected of demanding delayed wages around Rs 13,000 on their work from their contractors in the village of Pathlafar under the City Police Station in early Wednesday morning.
The person killed has been identified as Prabhu Yadav (70).
He sustained a bullet injury on the chest.
The two injured sons were Nandan Kumar and Sonu Kumar, both of them in the early 20s.
The police said they had a bullet injury in their limbs.
The incident occurred around 5am.
Their neighbors of Dust Yadav were accused of taking a shot on the trio after the heated argument.
Dust is a labor contractor who used to take people from the Pathhaphar and neighboring villages to Delhi because they worked on daily wages, according to the police.
Sho City Police Station Vinod Ram said that Nandan and Sonu worked in Delhi for the past 8 years where they were brought by dust “there, dust made them work but payments around RS 13000 accumulated from Nandan’s daily wages and Sonu were waiting with the contractor,” he said.
Sho said that Nandan and Sonu had returned from Delhi along with several other people including dust on Tuesday.
“On Wednesday morning, the two brothers and their fathers reached the dust house and began to demand money.
A heated altercation occurred immediately after that the contractor fired at least five to ten rounds of the weapons made by illegal countries who killed Prabhu and injured his two sons,” he said .
RAM said that dust and several colleagues escaped from the village after the incident.
“But the police arrested two females including the contractor’s wife to support the entire incident and then helped them escape,” he said.
Sho said that Prabhu’s oldest son Awadesh Kumar had submitted 3 people including Dust and Phudan Yadav among the initial accusations for the incident.
“Everything dodges.
Raids are in their nan.
No empty cartridge is restored from the place,” he said.
Sho Ram said that the body was handed over to the family after doing post-mortem.