City lawyer shot dead near Patna College

PATNA: A lawyer of the civil court here, Ashok Kumar Trivedi, 55, was shot dead by a gang of criminals on the Ashok Raj Path in front of the Patna College on Thursday afternoon.
The body of the victim was sent to Patna Medical College Hospital (PMCH) for postmortem. Irate residents blocked the Ashok Raj Path demanding arrest of the assailants. No arrest has been made in the case so far.
Trivedi was returning home, located on the Annie Besant Road, after drawing Rs 50,000 from Patna University branch of Allahabad Bank around 2 pm.He was walking down the pavement of the Ashok Raj Path when two persons tried to snatch the bag containing cash from him near the Patna College.
Trivedi, however, offered resistance and pinned down the two criminals. As nobody came to his rescue, Trivedi fled towards the Annie Besant Road but was chased by other associates of the criminals, who fired at him.
The onlookers reacted only after Trivedi fell on the ground. To scare away them, the criminals hurled countrymade bombs. While two criminals escaped towards Mahendru, three others vanished into the Jilebia Gali.
The Pirbahore police, who are investigating the case, have not yet arrived at any conclusion. However, IG, Patna zone, A C Verma, on the basis of initial investigation, claimed that loot of the cash may not be the reason behind the killing.
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Trivedi was also national general secretary of the Facit and was scheduled to go to Delhi to attend a function of the organisation. In fact, it was for this purpose that he withdrew money from the bank. Trivedi was elder brother of a senior journalist, T Ambarish, of a Hindi daily. One of his two sons is second lieutenant in the Army and is currently posted in Srinagar. No member of his family was there in the house as his wife had gone to see her daughter in Pune.