Two held in engineer's murder case in Vaishali

In a breakthrough in the murder case of engineer Ankit Kumar Jha in Bihar's Vaishali district last week, two accused persons were today arrested, a senior police official said.
On the basis of surveillance of mobile phones, a police team arrested one accused Prabhat Kumar from Dumka district in Jharkhand, while another Ramji Patel was nabbed from Hajipur town in Vaishali district, Superintendent of Police (SP) Rakesh Kumar said.
Both accused persons were said to be close to Jha, an engineer of Reliance IT , whose body was recovered from a village under Barati police outpost area in Vaishali district on December 29 last, he said.

The two accused had business and financial dealings with the slain engineer, the SP said.
The 42 year-old engineer's murder, coming close on the heels of a similar incident in Darbhanga district in which two engineers of a private road construction company were killed, had raised serious question about law and order situation in Bihar.
Under attack from the opposition for deteriorating law and order situation, the Chief Minister had chided the police brass and asked them to take whatever action was required to improve the situation on law and order front.