Bengal and Bihar police jointly
arrested more five individuals, including a woman, in Kolkata on Saturday night in connection with the killing of a gangster inside an intensive care unit (ICU) at a hospital in Patna, the capital of Bihar state. The arrests bring the total number of people detained in the case to 11. Earlier in the day, a joint operation by police forces from Bihar and West Bengal led to the arrest of five suspects from an apartment complex in New Town, a satellite township near Kolkata. Officials said four of the five detained there were directly involved in the killing. “The accused fled Patna immediately after the crime and took shelter in Kolkata. Their location was traced using mobile phone tracking,” a senior police officer told Press, adding that one of the five arrested may have helped the suspects hide rather than taking part in the killing itself. Authorities plan to seek transit remand for the accused to transfer them to Bihar.
Later that evening, a second police team raided a guest house in Kolkata’s Anandapur neighbourhood, where five more suspects were taken into custody. The suspects had checked into the guest house on Friday, producing valid identification documents and renting two air-conditioned rooms on the third floor. One of the detainees was injured during the raid and was taken away in an ambulance, witnesses said.
The guest house owner, speaking to local media, said she had no reason to suspect the group. “They behaved normally and had all proper ID. We’ve been running this guest house since 2018, and never faced such an incident,” she said. The police contacted her around Saturday evening, after which her husband and son rushed to the premises. Residents of the area reported a heavy police presence around 7:30–8:00 p.m., with armed personnel cordoning off the building. CCTV footage had earlier captured a car heading towards Kolkata from Patna, which helped investigators narrow their search. The individuals arrested in Anandapur have been identified as Sachin Singh, Harish Kumar, Tausif, and Yunus Khan, along with an unnamed woman. The nature of their roles in the killing is still under investigation. The fatal shooting of the gangster inside a hospital ICU has shocked residents and raised concerns about law and order in the region. Police say investigations are ongoing and further arrests have not been ruled out.
