Excise Assistant commissioner shot dead in Varanasi

Unidentified assailants shot dead a top Central Excise officer in Varanasi's Karaundi area this evening,police said.

Unidentified assailants shot dead a top Central Excise officer in Varanasi’s Karaundi area this evening,police said.

59-year-old Assistant Commissioner Nripateshwar Singh,posted at Varanasi,was shot dead from a point-blank range around 5.45 pm,Gurudarshan Singh,Inspector General of Police,said.

The officer was riding a motorcycle and when he reached a secluded place behind Banaras Hindu University in the area,the assailants suddenly stopped his vehicle and fired at him,killing him on the spot,Singh said.

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“The circumstances indicate that he was killed because of some old rivalry but the exact cause of the murder is still being probed. We have ruled out robbery as all valuables of the deceased,including his mobile phone,was found intact,” he said.

Nripateshwar Singh was rushed to the nearby Sir Sunderlal Hospital immediately after the incident but doctors declared him brought dead.

His body has been sent for postmortem and efforts are on to nab the culprits,the police official said.

Originally a resident of Ballia in Eastern UP,Nripateshwar Singh had settled at Shivpur area of Varanasi and was to retire next year. Before coming to Varanasi he was posted at Delhi for a few years.

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