Same gun used to kill CMOs

The finding has now corroborated the link between the two murders

Forensic examination of the bullet shells recovered from the spot where Dr B P Singh,Chief Medical Officer of Family Welfare,was murdered last week has shown that these were fired from the same weapon which was used to gun down his predecessor Dr Vinod Arya in October last year.

The finding has now corroborated the link between the two murders.

Dr B P Singh was shot dead near his residence in Gomti Nagar while on a morning walk last Saturday. Like him,Dr Arya was also shot dead while on a morning walk. A pistol of 7.65 bore calibre,which is also known as .30 bore calibre,was used in the crime.

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Official sources said that although a formal report from the ballistic experts is yet to be received,the Special Task Force officials investigating the murder of Dr Singh have informally collected the information from the experts.

A senior STF official said the ballistic examination also showed that the pistol used in the two murders was not a country-made one,but was of a kind which are usually smuggled from Afghanistan and are sold at prices between Rs 40,000 and Rs 60,000.

He said that they have identified some suspects and they are believed to have left UP the day Dr BP Singh was shot dead.

On Wednesday,the STF let off Yogendra Singh Chauhan and Girijesh Pandey,president and general secretary respectively of the UP Health Ministerial Staff Association,after questioning them for 36 hours. However,both were asked not to leave their respective houses without intimating the police and join the investigation whenever summoned.

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The STF suspects that the killers may be the same who had murdered a contractor Ajay Prakash Singh in Mau on August 29,2009.

Like Dr Arya and Dr Singh,he was also shot dead by two motorcycle riders with a .30 bore pistol. Jailed MLA Mukhtar Ansari and his associate Rakesh Pandey were named accused in that case.