BHAGALPUR: Railway IG Vinay Kumar on Wednesday said the railway police have announced a reward of Rs 1 lakh to anyone providing information about the killers of Assam scholar, Pritam Bhattacharya.
Kumar said the police were yet to make a breakthrough in the case. "We have intensified investigations and raiding the hideouts of criminal gangs operating in the area to crack the case," he said.
Believing the involvement of some local criminal gang in the killing, Naugachhia district police and GRP have put the heat on criminals operating in and around Naugachhia. Several police teams have been formed to investigate the murder, which even after the lapse of 10 days remains shrouded in mystery. Describing the incident as a blind case, police sources said some more history sheeters were interrogated on Wednesday. Police personnel have also been sent to adjoining Katihar.
Pritam Bhattacharya, son of a retired principal of a Silchar college in Assam, who was travelling in Awadh-Assam Express train, went missing from Naugachhia railway station in Bhagalpur district on July 9 while on way to New Delhi. Pritam's body was subsequently recovered by the Naugachhia police near railway overbridge under Katariya railway station on Barauni-Katihar railway section on July 15.
A postgraduate in physics from Silchar, Pritam was on way to Delhi to appear in a test for enrolment in PhD in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). He had heated exchanges with some commuters inside the bogie of the train, which he had mentioned to his family members on mobile. Some of the youths snatched his bag and got down from the train at Naugachhia station. Pritam also got down from the train and chased the youths. He informed his family in Assam around 3pm in the afternoon on July 9 about the incident. Subsequently, he went missing and his mobile was found switched-off.
The railway IG said what is baffling the police is the fact that neither Pritam's co-passengers nor the train attendants have corroborated his version. No eyewitness has come forward so far to assist the GRP or local police in solving the case.
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