Muzaffarpur, Nov 9, 2025

The Muzaffarpur administration has dismissed several media reports claiming that the murder of an elderly man in the district was linked to voting in the Bihar Assembly elections.

The incident occurred late Saturday evening in Patsara Ward 12 of Sakhaura Panchayat under the Hatta police station area, where a 70-year-old man, identified as Shankar Paswan, was beaten to death.

According to some media reports, family members of the deceased alleged that Paswan had voted for a particular political party on November 6 and was later threatened by supporters of a rival party for doing so. They reportedly told him that he had “voted in the wrong place” and would “face the consequences”.

However, the Muzaffarpur administration categorically denied these claims, stating

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