Clues put sleuths on road to Gaya

Dubey was to take charge of an office from where he was transferred out in August 23 under ‘‘unusual’’ circumstances. Having been promoted as the deputy general manager (tech) and project director, Dubey might have headed the NHAI at Koderma.

During his tenure in Koderma, Dubey had summoned three engineers and one from the consultant to the Koshma camp lab of the contractor to witness quality tests. There Dubey discovered that the sample had been changed. He wrote to the contractor and the consultant about it. The contractor had to move out the three engineers and the one from the consultant’s side.

There had been numerous such occasions. ‘‘At NHAI we are supposed to look after quality and schedule and everyone of us does it but Dubey was uncompromising,’’ says a colleague. The special investigation team headed by the DIG, Magadh Range, Nirmal Chandra Dhondiyal is trying to track eyewitnesses — and the rickshawallah who took Dubey from the station when his driver did not come. As a police team tried to ‘‘recreate’’ the sequence of events, it emerged that Dubey might not have been killed at the spot where the body was found. The police found that:

a) There was not a drop of blood on the spot where Dubey’s body was found.

b) A bullet head and an empty shell were found about 6 feet from the body. The bullet and the shell were lying side by side. A n officer pointed out: ‘‘Bullet head and empty shell can’t be at the same spot.’’

C) Some residents of the Circuit House Road told police they heard the sound of two bombs at about 3.45 a.m. on November 27 at the spot where the body was found. Apparently these were smoke bombs to camouflage the crime or to give a cover to the assailants.