{"id":307922,"date":"2019-01-10T04:33:30","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T04:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=307922"},"modified":"2019-01-10T04:33:30","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T04:33:30","slug":"bihar-bjp-leader-shot-dead-in-muzaffarpur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bihar-bjp-leader-shot-dead-in-muzaffarpur\/","title":{"rendered":"Bihar: BJP leader shot dead in Muzaffarpur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-299838 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/lynched-300x259.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"486\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/lynched-300x259.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/lynched-487x420.jpg 487w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/lynched.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A local Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader on Wednesday was shot dead in Bihar&#8217;s Muzaffarpur district by an unidentified person, police said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The deceased was identified as Baiju Prasad Gupta.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the reports, the incident happened while the victim was sitting at his medical facility. An individual asked him about some medicine before shooting him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Police was immediately rushed to the spot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The victim was shifted to a hospital but died later.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Police said, they are\u00a0trying to ascertain the reason behind the incident.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">An investigation into the matter is underway.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A local Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader on Wednesday was shot dead in Bihar&#8217;s Muzaffarpur district by an unidentified person, police said. The deceased was identified as Baiju Prasad Gupta. According to the reports, the incident happened while the victim was sitting at his medical facility. An individual asked him about some medicine before shooting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":299838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2915,2089,2014],"tags":[10549,842,1873,3938],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307922"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307923,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307922\/revisions\/307923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}