Headless body of missing RJD leader found, police suspect personal enmity

Kailash Paswan (48) was abducted from Nawada on July 6, and his beheaded body was found a day later at Khudaganj area in Nalanda.

Kailash Paswan went missing on July 6, body found next day

The RJD’s Nawada district general secretary Kailash Paswan (50), who was allegedly kidnapped last Friday, has been found beheaded in Nalanda. Though the body was found on Saturday, it was only identified on Monday evening on the basis of clothes and personal belongings. Police have attributed Paswan’s killing to personal enmity and booked another RJD leader, who is currently absconding.

Nalanda police said the headless body was found under the bridge of Paimar river in Khudaganj police station area.

Paswan’s relatives have told police that Chhotu Gupta, an RJD leader from Buchchi village of Nawada, had taken Paswan with him on Friday to attend a panchayat meeting from where he was allegedly kidnapped. The police said Gupta had criminal antecedents.

Paswan’s son lodged a case of kidnapping Sunday. A murder case was not lodged because the body found in Nalanda had not been identified then. Town police station in-charge Anjani Kumar said, “As the body was found in Nalanda, the murder case would be lodged there and the investigation can be transferred to us later. The RJD leader’s son has named Gupta in the kidnapping case”.

Police sources said Paswan’s family also suspects the involvement of a woman working with an NGO near Paswan’s home in Nawada. But the FIR does not mention this.

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