A constable at the State Police headquarters was arrested in connection with the killing of surgeon N.K. Agarwal and his aide during Diwali last week.Rampravesh Sharma was arrested on the charge of ‘‘sheltering’’ his son Anjey Kumar Raju who is wanted for his alleged relations with gangster Bindu Singh, suspected to be the mastermind behind the killing, said officer-in-charge of Kadamkuan police station Neelam Kumar Singh.Sharma has been sent to jail, he said.Meanwhile, as the indefinite strike called by IMA to protest Agarwal’s killing entered the fifth day without any signs of a settlement, Army doctors were called in to man major hospitals in Bihar.The Ministry of Defence had agreed to the Bihar government’s request to send specialists to major hospitals, said Chief Secretary K.A.H. Subramanian.At least 63 Army doctors — from Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, New Delhi and other places — would arrive in Patna by Wednesday evening to run emergency services at the medical colleges and hospitals at Muzaffarpur, Bhagalpur and Darbhanga in the first phase, he said.Similar arrangements would be made for the district hospitals in the second phase, when the Army would start sending additional personnel from its medical corps.The state government had requested the Defence Ministry to spare specialists in cardiology, gynaecology, orthopaedics and paediatrics to tackle the situation, Subramanian added. The Army and the Railways have already started treating patients in hospitals run by them from today.
