At least five persons have been arrested from New Town near Kolkata in connection with the murder of gangster Chandan Mishra in a Patna hospital, the police said on Saturday.
Five policemen were suspended on Saturday for dereliction of duty in connection with the murder of the gangster in the Patna hospital, a senior officer said.
The five accused were apprehended from a housing complex in the satellite township of the metropolis following raids conducted jointly by the Patna Police and West Bengal STF in the early hours of Saturday, they said.
Mishra, a resident of Buxar district of Bihar, who was a murder convict and out on parole, was shot dead by gunmen inside a private hospital in Patna on Thursday morning.
"All the accused were hiding in a flat in the housing complex in New Town area. Of the five, four were directly involved in the killing. They fled Patna after the incident and came to Kolkata," a police officer said.
"Their mobile phone tower location helped us track them. The Bihar police will produce them before a local court, seeking transit remand," he said.
A purported CCTV footage of the incident, which went viral on social media, showed five armed men entering the ICU of the hospital and opening fire at Mishra.
The suspended personnel comprised a sub-inspector, two ASIs, and two constables.
"They have been suspended with immediate effect for dereliction of duty in connection with the murder of the convict inside a top private hospital on Thursday. The personnel were posted at Shastri Nagar police station," Patna (Central) superintendent of police Diksha said.
Also, three more policemen -- an SI and two ASIs -- were suspended for laxity during their normal deployments at different places in the state capital. These suspensions were not related to the murder case.
While an SI posted at Kargil Chowk near Gandhi Maidan was suspended, two ASIs -- one of Gardani Bagh police station and another posted at Emergency Response Vehicle (ERV) -- were suspended for dereliction of duty, a statement issued by the office of the Patna (Central) SP said.
Mishra was lodged at Beur Jail and had gone to the hospital for treatment on parole, police said, adding, he was involved in 24 criminal cases, including over 12 murder cases.
SP Patna (Central) Diksha had told PTI on Friday that a probe is underway as to how the criminals managed to reach the room where Mishra was admitted without any security check.
"This raises serious questions over the security arrangements at the hospital. Five unmasked armed assailants reached the second floor, opened fire at Mishra, and fled the premises. Investigators are certainly looking into any complicity that may have led to the security lapse," she had said.
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