Video: 5 men walk into Patna hospital room, shoot dead rival gang member
Police teams rushed to the spot and have launched a search to identify the shooters with assistance from Buxar Police. Officials said they are also probing possible lapses in hospital security and whether there was any complicity on the part of the hospital guards."A criminal named Chandan Mishra was admitted to Paras Hospital for treatment and was shot by members of a rival gang. It cannot be ruled out that the security guards were involved. We will investigate this angle as well," Central Range (Patna) Inspector General Jitendra Rana told reporters.The incident triggered sharp political reactions, with the opposition accusing the Nitish Kumar-led NDA government of failing to curb rising crime in the state."I will request the Governor to impose President's Rule in Bihar. Nurses, doctors — no one is safe here. This government shelters criminals and mafias. There is no administration left in Bihar," Purnea MP Pappu Yadav said, lashing out at the ruling dispensation.RJD leader Mrityunjay Tiwari echoed similar concerns, alleging that the state has descended into 'Gunda Raj'. "The criminals don't fear the police anymore. Crime is out of control while the state government remains silent. The law and order situation in Bihar has collapsed," he said.Police are yet to make any arrests in the case.- EndsMust Watch
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Indian Express
2 hours ago
- Indian Express
As Nitish govt faces attacks on law and order, numbers show why crime in Bihar among India's highest
As Assembly elections approach, a recent spate of murders – the latest on Thursday, when five gunmen shot and killed a notorious criminal on parole inside a private hospital in Patna – has sparked a political row over law and order in Bihar. The Opposition has long been attacking the Nitish Kumar-led NDA government, with RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav claiming that Bihar has descended into 'chaos' under the leadership of an 'unconscious CM'. Even Chirag Paswan, who heads the Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) and is a part of the NDA, has now said that the recent murders 'demonstrate the complete collapse of law and order in Bihar'. While Nitish Kumar is credited across the board for reversing the trend of 'jungle raj' in Bihar, over the last decade under him, data from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) and the Bihar Police's state-level figures accessed by The Indian Express shows that crime is rising. The rise in the overall number of crimes in Bihar has been 80.2% from 2015 to 2024, as per the State Crime Records Bureau (SCRB) data. In contrast, from 2015 to 2022, according to the latest available national-level data, India saw an increase in overall crimes of 23.7%. The number of crimes in Bihar has risen every year since 2015 – barring 2016, 2020 (when the Covid-19 pandemic struck), and 2024. The highest year-on-year increase was recorded in 2017, when crime rose by 24.4%. In 2022, there were 3.5 lakh crimes in Bihar, up 23.3% from the previous year. In contrast, crime fell at the national level – by 4.5% in 2022 and 7.7% in 2021. The latest SCRB data shows the number of crimes rose in 2023 to 3.54 lakh, before falling marginally to 3.52 lakh in 2024. As of June 2025, Bihar has seen 1.91 lakh crimes, more than half what was recorded in 2024. Since 2015, Bihar has been among the 10 worst states in terms of overall cases of crimes. Adjusted for population, though, Bihar's rate of crimes per lakh people has been significantly below the national average. In 2022, Bihar recorded the seventh highest number of crimes at a rate of 277 cases per lakh population. However, India recorded an overall crime rate of 422 cases per lakh population. In fact, after 2015, Delhi reported the highest crime rate for five years, while Kerala ranked the worst for three years. This, however, is also a factor of registration of cases, which could be higher in Delhi and Kerala due to the economic and educational status of its residents. Though Bihar's overall crime rate did not exceed the national average in any year since 2015, the NCRB data shows that Bihar's law and order issues stem from a consistently higher-than-national-average incidence of violent crime. Take murder, for instance. While overall murder cases have fallen from 3,178 in 2015 to 2,930 in 2022, Bihar has ranked second-highest in the country for the number of murders each year since 2015, behind only the much more populous Uttar Pradesh. The number of attempted murders has risen in Bihar, from 5,981 in 2015 to 8,667 in 2022, putting the state at second-highest after UP again. According to the latest SCRB data accessed by The Indian Express, Bihar recorded 1,379 murders till June 2025, compared to 2,786 in all of 2024 and 2,863 in 2023. [CHART: Murders and attempted murders in Bihar]Adjusted for population, in 2022 for example, Bihar recorded 2.3 murders and 6.9 attempted murders per lakh population, exceeding the national average of 2.1 and 4.1, respectively. Over the past decade, while Bihar's murder rate peaked at 3.1 in 2015, the rate of attempted murders was highest in 2017 at 9.1. However, owing to its large population, Bihar's rates of murder and attempted murder make it a middle-of-the-pack state – it ranked among the top-10 states for murder only in 2017 and had the 12th highest murder rate in 2022. However, the state has been in the top five for the rate of attempted numbers every year from 2015 to 2022, suggesting a persistent issue. In 2017, Bihar recorded the second-highest rate of attempted murders. The most common motive for murder in Bihar has consistently been property disputes, which was the most cited reason in all but one year from 2015 to 2022. In 2018, there were 1,016 murders linked to property disputes, the highest on record in this period. As a share of all murders, property-related cases peaked at 36.7% in 2017. In 2022, personal vendetta was the most common motive for murder at 804 cases or 27.4% of all murders. In fact, Bihar has reported the most murders linked to property disputes every year from 2015 to 2022, except in 2018 when UP was on top. While Bihar had recorded the fourth-highest number of murders linked to personal vendetta in 2015, it has been first on this measure from 2018 to 2022. Data shared by the Bihar Police showed that the top motive in 2025 (till June) was personal vendetta, with 513 cases accounting for 37.8% of all murders. Property disputes, at 139 cases, accounted for 10.2% of murders. Behind the high incidence of murder in Bihar are violations of the Arms Act, 1959. The Bihar Police, in a report published earlier this year, identified the prevalence of fake arms licences, illegal firearms and unauthorised sale of ammunition as the primary reasons behind rising violent crime over the last decade. From 2015 to 2022, the number of Arms Act violations rose from 1,846 to 3,549 – an increase of 92.3% – with a majority of cases linked to unlicenced weapons. On this front, Bihar has ranked in the worst five states every year from 2015 to 2022, except in 2016 when it was sixth. In the same period, it was UP that recorded the most Arms Act cases. But as a rate, Bihar has gone from seeing 1.8 Arms Act cases per lakh population in 2015 to 2.8 in 2022, putting it consistently below the national average, which stood at 5.8 in 2022. Among other violent crimes, Bihar has reported an increase from 2015 to 2022 in the number of kidnappings (65.9%), robberies (39.2%), cases voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous means (61.3%), and cases of voluntarily causing grievous hurt (17.7%). In 2022, Bihar figured among the top five states for kidnapping, robberies and voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous means, and in the top 10 for voluntarily causing grievous hurt. Though cases of dacoity and extortion have dropped considerably in Bihar, it ranks third and seventh respectively among the states. Adjusted for population, Bihar falls below the national average for cases per lakh population for a number of violent crimes. However, in 2022, the state's 13.1 cases per lakh of voluntarily causing grievous hurt and 9.4 kidnappings per lakh are above the national averages of 6.2 and 7.8, respectively. But as per the Bureau of Police Research and Development, which falls under the Union Home Ministry, Bihar has the most stretched police force in the country as of January 2023. At 114.57 police personnel per lakh population, Bihar has the lowest such ratio among the states and higher than only the UT of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu. With a sanctioned strength of 1.44 lakh, Bihar's police force is understaffed with as many as 42,000 vacancies, which is the third-largest such deficit among all states. This is despite spending a larger share of its Budgetary outlay on the police than states like Maharashtra, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh and Telangana in 2022-23 and having the seventh highest number of police stations in the country.
News18
3 hours ago
- News18
Waqf Bill, Tax Relief, Suspensions: Highlights Of Three Parliament Sessions Under Modi 3.0
Last Updated: Under PM Narendra Modi's third term, Monsoon Session, Winter Session 2024, and Budget Session 2025, were marked not just by bold reforms but also intense debates and disruptions. Parliamentarians are getting ready for Monsoon Session from July 21 to August 21. This is the first session of Parliament after the dastardly Pahalgam attack and India's Operation Sindoor against the terror sites in Pakistan. The Income Tax Bill 2025 is also set to come up this session. As Parliament prepares for the Monsoon Session, it's time to review the highlights of the previous three sessions after Modi 3.0 came to power. Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's third term, Monsoon Session 2024, Winter Session 2024, and Budget Session 2025, were marked not just by bold reforms but also intense debates and disruptions. The monsoon session came just after the NDA came to power for a consecutive third term. Though it was less heavy on legislation, the session was a politically charged one. While no major announcements were made in Budget, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman launched a strong defence of the government's economic performance, claiming record job creation, better inflation control, and stable fiscal management. 'Under UPA, 2.9 crore jobs were created. Under Modi, we created 12.5 crore jobs. That's the difference between headlines and hard work," she said, replying to the Budget debate. The Opposition attacked the Budget 2024–25 as a 'Kursi Bachao" exercise, accusing the BJP of favouritism towards Bihar and Andhra Pradesh ahead of state elections. Held from November 25 to December 20, 2024, the session was dominated by political turmoil. Over 140 Opposition MPs were suspended for continuous disruptions and protests — one of the most sweeping disciplinary actions in parliamentary history. The first week of the session saw repeated adjournments over issues including unrest in Manipur. Despite the chaos, the government introduced two major bills related to 'One Nation, One Election" — one proposing a constitutional amendment and another aimed at synchronising elections in Union Territories. Both were sent to a Joint Parliamentary Committee. The session also saw a heated debate on Constitution. 'Your slogan 'Garibi Hatao' was a fraud. We didn't give slogans — we gave toilets, electricity, and gas cylinders," Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, during the debate on constitutional values. Another bill passed was the Bharatiya Vayuyan Vidheyak, 2024, which updated India's civil aviation law. Budget Session 2025: Tax Reforms And the Waqf Bill Debate Spanning January 31 to April 4, 2025, this session delivered a politically strategic budget that included substantial middle-class tax relief, record capital investment, and new welfare schemes. The highlight was the revamp of the Income Tax structure with incomes up to Rs 12 lakh became tax-free under the New Tax Regime, with significant relief for incomes up to Rs 24 lakh and streamlined compliance norms. Infrastructure commitments included a Rs 1.5 lakh crore capital outlay, and the launch of 200 new Vande Bharat trains. Farmers received a major boost through the PM Dhan-Dhaanya Krishi Yojana, while women were empowered through the Lakhpati Didi scheme. However, the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024, passed after a 12-hour debate in Lok Sabha, triggered backlash in West Bengal and Tripura. Opposition alleged it was aimed at weakening Muslim institutions, while the government called it a transparency reform. AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi tore a copy of the Bill in Lok Sabha and said, 'You want to take over our lands, dismantle our institutions, and now you call it reform? This is a targeted attack on Muslims — cloaked in legal jargon." Union Minister Kiren Rijiju, tabling the bill in the Lok Sabha, quipped that the Congress government would have given Parliament and airport lands to Waqf had the BJP not come to power in 2014. He accused the Opposition of misleading the public on matters unrelated to the Waqf Bill, citing a lawsuit over multiple properties claimed as Waqf properties by the Delhi Waqf Board. 'These were claimed as Waqf properties by the Delhi Waqf Board. The UPA government denotified 123 properties and turned them over to the Waqf Board while the lawsuit was still pending," he said. Congress MP Sonia Gandhi called Bill a 'brazen assault" on the Constitution, accusing the BJP of using it to ensure 'permanent polarisation" in society. She also accused the government of 'bulldozing" the Bill. Opposition parties staged walkouts, accusing the Centre of ramming bills through without adequate debate. view comments Location : New Delhi, India, India First Published: July 20, 2025, 07:11 IST News politics Waqf Bill, Tax Relief, Suspensions: Highlights Of Three Parliament Sessions Under Modi 3.0 Disclaimer: Comments reflect users' views, not News18's. Please keep discussions respectful and constructive. Abusive, defamatory, or illegal comments will be removed. News18 may disable any comment at its discretion. By posting, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
New Indian Express
3 hours ago
- New Indian Express
INDIA bloc to corner Centre over Operation Sindoor, Bihar SIR , Trump's ‘ceasefire' claim
NEW DELHI: Ahead of the Monsoon session of Parliament, leaders of 24 Opposition parties came together on Saturday evening and vowed to corner the NDA government on a number of key issues, including the recent Pahalgam attack, Operation Sindoor, the special intensive revision (SIR) of Bihar electoral rolls and US President Donald Trump's repeated claims of brokering a 'ceasefire' between India and Pakistan. The virtual meeting was attended by several senior leaders, including Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, parliamentary party leader Sonia Gandhi, Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, NCP (SP) supremo Sharad Pawar, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Uddhav Thakarey, TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee, J&K CM Omar Abdullah and Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren, Tejashwi Yadav (RJD), Ram Gopal Yadav (SP), Tiruchi Siva (DMK) M A Baby of CPI(M), D Raja (CPI), and CPI(ML)'s Dipankar Bhattacharya. Briefing reporters, Congress' deputy leader in Rajya Sabha Pramod Tiwari said though several issues came up in the course of the meeting, the bloc has unanimously decided to focus on eight key issues. The leaders expressed grave concern over the government's failure in bringing the terrorists behind the Pahalgam attack to justice and its 'silence' on repeated claims made by US President Donald Trump in brokering a 'ceasefire' between India and Pakistan, Tiwari said. The leaders also deliberated on the revision of electoral rolls in Bihar that 'threatens the voting rights of people', he said. 'There is an undeclared Emergency that has been imposed and voting rights are being snatched away.' Tiwari said the opposition parties would expect the Prime Minister to be present in Parliament and respond to the issues raised in the House, asserting that, 'Parliament is more important than travelling abroad'. Several parties raised the issue of 'atrocities' against SC, ST, women and minorities, inflation, farmers' distress and the delimitation excercise. According to sources, Rahul Gandhi spoke about the Pahalgam attack and Modi government's foreign policy failure.
