Darbhanga: A relative of wanted criminal Santosh Jha has been arrested from a village in Darbhanga district in Bihar in connection with the murder of two engineers.
The police raided Gangta village on Sunday night and arrested Pintu Lal Dev, brother-in-law of Jha's sister Munni Devi. Seth was being questioned by the Special Task Force in connection with the murder case of Brajesh Kumar and Mukesh Kumar.
Six suspects have been detained for interrogation have been let off on bond as their role in the engineers' murder case could not be established.
Two engineers of a private road construction company were shot dead by unidentified assailants near the road construction site at Shivram Chowk on December 26 allegedly after the firm failed to meet the ransom demand.
Santosh Jha, incarcerated in a Gaya jail, was under the scanner of investigators.
STF officials had yesterday inspected the spot of murder of the two engineers and recovered some used cartridges of AK-47 and country-made pistol, besides leaflets of Bihar People's Liberation, a gang being run by Santosh Jha.
(With PTI inputs)
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