Gunmen kill murder convict in Patna hospital | India News

PATNA: Five men, each carrying a pistol, strolled into a room in a top private hospital here Thursday morning and shot dead a murder convict undergoing treatment on parole and fled without encountering any resistance, the impunity of the execution triggering fresh alarm in a city reeling from a string of killings this July. The last gunman didn’t bother to run; he swaggered off, CCTV footage showed.Chandan Mishra, 36, of was serving a life sentence at Beur central jail for the 2011 murder of a businessman. He was recovering from liver surgery at Paras HMRI Hospital on Bailey Road. His parole was to end July 18.No arrests yet, but some men detained for Patna shooting: SPAround 7.15am, CCTV footage captured five men with pistols approaching Room 209 on the hospital’s second floor and firing at close range.Their faces were clearly visible in the footage, now circulating widely on social media. Mishra died of multiple gunshot wounds.A case has been registered. Forensic and canine units were sent to the scene. The body has been sent for autopsy. “Some people have been detained for questioning, but no arrests have been made yet,” Patna SP (central) Diksha said.Mishra had over two dozen cases against him. His 2011 conviction was tied to the murder of businessman Rajendra Kesari. Police said he often declared his intentions openly and had told Kesari, “I will kill you tomorrow,” after he refused to pay extortion money. Kesari was gunned down the next day.Patna SSP Kartikeya K Sharma said preliminary evidence pointed to gang rivalry. “There was a gang called Chandan-Sheru. The manner of shooting suggests a targeted hit by a rival group, possibly over personal enmity or gang war,” he said.Mishra had teamed up with Omkarnath, alias Sheru Singh, to form the Chandan-Sheru gang, which dominated organised crime in western Bihar. Their rise prompted police crackdowns and Rs 50,000 bounties on both men. Power struggles over money and leadership eventually split the gang, with Sheru forming his own faction. Both had clashed when they were inmates at Bhagalpur jail.