Satish Aditya
Samastipur : Seven miscreants fired indiscriminately near the house of senior BJP leader and former Minister Baidyanath Sahni at village Gunai-Basahi village under Tazpur police station in Samastipur District in North Bihar at 9 pm on May 26, 2020. No one was, however, injured in the incident. The criminals had, apparently, resorted to firing to scare Sahani and his family members. Panic
prevails at the village following the incident.
On getting information, Tazpur police reached the spot and made preliminary inquiry into the incident. SP, Samastipur, Vikash Barman, told this scribe that in the FIR lodged by Vijay Sahni, nephew of Baidyanath Sahni, seven persons have been made named accused. One suspect has been detained in this case and is being quizzed by police, the SP said. Police teams are conducting raids to nab the accused. The SP said that he has directed the SDPO to crack the case and police are camping at the village to provide security to the BJP leader Sahni.
Vijay Sahni, in his FIR, alleged that seven persons including Ganesh Sahni and Ranjit Sahani of neighbouring Chaksikandar village came riding four motorcycle and talked to Baidyanath Sahni but after sometime they misbehaved with him and also fired 12 rounds before leaving his house.
It may be recalled here that Baidyanath Sahni was JD(U) MLA from Morwa assembly constituency in Samastipur District and was also minister in Nitish Kumar ministry. The JD(U), however, denied him ticket in 2015 assembly elections after which he joined BJP on October 2 , 2015.