DJ shot dead at bar in Ranchi, accused held from Gaya

A disc jockey DJ was shot dead at a bar in Ranchi on the intervening night of Sunday and Monday reported PTICCTV footage of the incident went viral on social media platforms in which it is seen that a man only in shorts with his face covered and a rifle in hand enters the bar and shoots at the chest of the DJ from point blank range The accused fled after the incident police saidThe deceased was identified as Sandip Pramanik a resident of West BengalRanchi Senior Superintendent of Police SSP Chandan Kumar Sinha told PTI The accused has been nabbed from Alipur police station area in Gaya with the help of Bihar police He will be brought to Ranchi and a detailed interrogation will be conducted to ascertain the exact cause of the firingThe SSP said that soon after the incident police started an investigation into it In the course of the investigation it was found that the accused is in Bihars Gaya A team was immediately rushed and the accused was nabbed today he saidThe accused changed vehicles at several places while on way to Bihar and the vehicles were seized he saidWe shared the location with Gaya police and kept track of him Finally we were able to catch him within 15 hours of the incident the SSP saidSinha said that the accused was in an alcoholic state when the crime was carried out In video footage he is being seen alone It needs to be found out whether he was alone or other persons were also involved in the crime the SSP saidAs per the PTI report the accused was identified as Abhishek Singh alias Vicky a resident of RanchiTalking to the media the SSP said The incident occurred around midnight When police reached the spot of the incident there was no witness It was a blind case for the police Then we set up seven teams With the help of technical support and preliminary inquiries the layer in the incident started openingHe said that prima facie it was known that there was a scuffle between the bouncers and customers including the accused at the bar around 1030 pmAround 118 am the DJ was standing near a lift just outside the bar and waiting for a taxi Then the accused came to the second floor where the bar is located and shot in the chest of DJ outside the lift the SSP saidThere was no one excluding the DJ at that time It appears that after the fight with bouncers the accused who was in an alcoholic state came for revenge he saidSinha said that the rifle which was used in the crime has been recovered After searching the house of the accused we recovered two arms licenses issued from the state of Assam in his name We are verifying if the license is authentic The accused did not deposit his arms while we had repeatedly requested armholders to deposit their weapons in view of Model Code of Conduct MCC for the Lok Sabha polls he saidThe accused is a businessman who holds agencies of a cold drinks and a cigarette company and he owns two vehicles Both the vehicles that were used to flee have been seized he saidAbhisheks three friends including Pratik Md Samiruddin and Mrityunjay are also being interrogated in the case police said