As the counting day for the 1995 Bihar Assembly elections arrived, the Congress’s Tarapur candidate Sachchidanand Singh and five of his supporters made their way to the town of Kharagpur in Munger district. They were near the village of Launa when their car came under attack from a group of assailants, who hurled a grenade.

Apart from Singh, the Congress leader’s aide Vijay Singh, and the vehicle’s driver Arvind Singh were killed in the attack on March 29, while Janata Dal leader and former MLA Tarini Singh’s son Prabhakar Singh was shot dead near the local hospital while attempting to take the victims there.

The police lodged a case (44/1995) on March 31, two days after the incident, against 27 people on the complaint of Nawada (a village near Tarapur) resident Ranbir Kumar Singh. Amo

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