Two brothers shot dead at wedding reception in Patna
Patna(PTI): Two brothers were shot dead by unidentified assailants at a wedding reception in a village here late Sunday evening, police said.
According to preliminary investigation, Manjeet Kumar and Manish Kumar, aged between 25 and 27, were killed over an old dispute, police said.
The incident took place in Shahpur village, under the jurisdiction of Gopalpur police station.
"Police received a call that two brothers were shot at by some unidentified persons at the wedding reception of the son of a local resident, Daulat Rai. Police immediately reached the spot and took the duo to the nearest government hospital, where they were declared brought dead," Superintendent of Police, Patna East, Parichay Kumar told reporters.
Police recovered three spent cartridges from the spot and efforts are being made to nab the accused. The bodies have been sent for post-mortem, the officer said.
Prima facie it appears that the two were killed over some old dispute, probably related to property, Kumar said.
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We will move court again to resist voter deletions: Mamata
Kolkata (PTI): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday hit out at the BJP and the Election Commission over voter deletions during the SIR exercise and said her party will move a court again to resist the removal of electors from the rolls.
Her comments came after nearly 91 lakh voters' names were deleted from the electoral rolls following the completion of the Special Intensive Revision in the state.
“You will not be able to defeat the TMC by deleting names. We will move a court again to resist the exclusion of names," Banerjee said while attacking her principal challenger BJP over the roll revision exercise.
Banerjee had in February argued in the Supreme Court as she sought an intervention in the SIR process.
The EC figures, which pushed the total deletion to over 90.83 lakh names from the original voter base of 7.66 crore in October 2025, showed that the proportion of removal of electors now remains at over 11.85 per cent.
Criticising the poll panel over the SIR process, she also said, "We will fight legally to get the names included on the list as per the Constitution. If people cannot cast their votes, what is the need to frame the tribunal? And then you are saying that the list has been frozen. What is this? We will challenge it and try to understand it."
Addressing a poll rally at Arambagh in Hooghly district, the TMC supremo accused the saffron party of trying to manipulate the electoral rolls and offering money to woo voters.
Banerjee also charged the Election Commission with intimidating people over the phone.
“It (EC) is working at the behest of the BJP. It is calling people over the telephone to threaten and intimidate them,” she claimed.
Later, while speaking at a rally in Balagarh in the same district, Banerjee warned that voting for the BJP would effectively mean "giving up fish, meat, and speaking in Bengali".
“People are not allowed to eat eggs, fish, or meat in the BJP-ruled states like Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Maharashtra. The same will happen here if the BJP comes to power," Banerjee claimed.
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