Minister claims crucial leads

State Home Minister Umashankar Gupta said investigators had got crucial leads but refused to divulge information. He said the CID would investigate and rejected the Oppositions demand for a CBI inquiry.

The police said the killers appeared to know the scribe as he had let them in late in the night. It did not appear to be a professional job because the killers used pointed objects like scissors.

The police said the most probable cause appeared to be personal enmity,which could have stemmed from the kidnapping of Anant Jharia,the eight-year-old son of a government officer. The boy returned home,unharmed,within 49 hours.

The kidnappers allegedly made a call to a phone purchased on Rais behalf. The murders took place within hours of the boys return on Friday.