Patna: Rituraj Singh, a gangster charged with killing Rupesh Kumar Singh, a senior IndiGo Airlines official in Bihar, has been found not only to be a graduate but also a voracious reader of English novels and literature.
A police team which raided Rituraj’s home in Patna over the weekend found a large number of books including ‘The Diary Of a Young Girl’ by Anne Frank, ‘Pride and Prejudice’ by Jane Austen, ‘The Sins of the Father’ by Jeffrey Archer, ‘Utopia’ by Thomas More and William Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ and ‘Macbeth’.
Apart from these, several other books such as ‘Wings of Fire’ written by APJ Abdul Kalam and Arun Tiwari and ‘The Secret of Nagas’ by Amish Tripathi were also found in his room. His family could not understand why the educated youth suddenly got involved in the world of crime. There is a notion of thought in India that highly educated and sophisticated people are considered less likely to become embroiled in matters such as murder cases, but Rituraj appears to have bucked that tred.
Shot six times
The gangster who did his graduation course from an education institute in Jaipur had allegedly masterminded the cold-blooded murder of an IndiGo airlines manager at Patna airport Rupesh Kumar Singh. The IndiGo manager was shot six times right in front of his apartment gate on January 12 while he was returning home in the evening.
During an intensive investigation lasting for a month, the police have now come to the conclusion that the IndiGo official was killed in a case of road rage. “Mastermind Rituraj is a psycho. He carried out the murder to avenge his assault in public by the IndiGo official when his bike hit latter car on the street. We have enough evidence to prove he masterminded the killing,” Patna’s senior superintendent of police Upendra Sharma said. The accused was arrested on Wednesday.
Police said they traced out the 28-year-old mastermind after scanning more than 200 CCTV footages, 4,000 call data records of cell phones and interrogating more than 75 persons including a prominent contractor and a ruling Janata Dal United leader.
