Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar was forced to jump onto a footpath during his morning walk at Patna’s Anne Marg, after two bike-borne men entered his convoy on Thursday. The men have been detained for breaching the CM’s security.
“The men were riding the motorcycles dangerously. The CM had to jump onto the footpath to save himself from any harm. The bikers had entered into Kumar’s security cover while he was taking a morning walk around 6:45 am near Circular Road,” a police officer said.
He added that the incident took place near Circular Road, the area where several politicians, including former CM Rabri Devi live. Patna SSP and some top officers had arrived at the spot. The traffic on 7, Circular Road was restricted to one-way post the incident.
The CCTV footage of the area is being scanned, while the CM’s security took the bikers into their custody and are interrogating them. According to a report in Dainik Jagran the number of the motorcycle the men were riding is BR 01 DK 7148. It is registered in the name of one Himanshu Kumar.
This is not the first time that there has been a lapse in the security of chief minister Nitish Kumar. Last year he was attacked by a ‘mentally unstable’ person in his hometown, Bakhtiyarpur.
Footage from CCTV cameras showed the man, in his late 20s or early 30s, attacking the CM when he was about to pay his respects to the statue of Shilbhadra Yaji, a freedom fighter from the state and a former Rajya Sabha member.
As Kumar bent forward to place flowers at the feet of the life-size statue, the attacker punched him from behind. Clad in a T-shirt and trousers, the man was soon caught by the chief minister’s security staff and quickly handed over to the police.
According to a statement issued by the district administration, the man was identified as 32-year-old Shankar Kumar Verma alias Chhotu, a resident of Abu Mohammadpur locality in Bakthiyarpur township of Patna district.
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