Extortion message to gas agency owner's son

PATNA: Sudhanshu Singh, son of B N Singh, owner of a gas agency at Saguna Mor, received a threatening SMS on his cellphone demanding Rs 10 lakh as rangdari on Wednesday. Singh lives at IAS Colony under Rupuspur police station area in the state capital.
Rupuspur police station SHO Nehar Bhushan said Sudhanshu received an SMS on Wednesday afternoon on his cellphone asking him to pay Rs 10 lakh or face dire consequences.He said Sudhanshu had named the son of Brahmdeo Rai in the FIR, alleging that he recently had a dispute with him (Rai's son) over the gas agency. The police are investigating the case from all possible angles, the SHO added.
Two held for youth's murder: The Beur police on Thursday arrested Vinay Kumar Singh and his son Swadesh alias Golu on the charge of murdering a youth, Guddu Kumar, 27, at their house at Beur Akhara locality. Guddu's body was recovered from the locality on Wednesday.
Beur police station SHO M Paswan said Guddu, an employee in a biscuit factory in Ranchi, came in contact with Kanchan, who lives at her relative's house in the locality. Two days back, Guddu reached the girl's house as she had called him. But the family members discovered his presence and assaulted him mercilessly. As Guddu tried to escape, the father-son duo raised an alarm, chased him and further assaulted him, resulting in his death on the spot. They, then, threw the body.
Man crushed to death: One Kaushal Kishore Singh, 60, was crushed to death by a speeding tractor on Phulwarisharif main road under Phulwarisharif police station on Thursday evening. Police station SHO N K Rajak said the mishap took place at around 6.30pm. The driver escaped with the tractor after the incident. Police are trying to trace the driver and the vehicle.