Overview

• Gandhi Maidan Station House Officer Rajesh Kumar was suspended for dereliction of duty after investigators found a delayed response to Gopal Khemka’s July 4 assassination.
• Shooter Umesh Yadav admitted under questioning that financial pressure drove him to kill Khemka and that he did not act alone, pointing to co-plotter Ashok Sao.
• Interrogators learned that an individual known as Vikas arranged the motorcycle and firearm used in the killing, prompting deeper inquiries into his network.
• Bihar Police’s Special Task Force has established a dedicated cell to compile a data bank of contract killers and trace their assets.
• Chief Minister Nitish Kumar convened a law and order review and directed police to complete the Khemka investigation swiftly as public concern grows over a spree of daytime shootings across Bihar.