{"id":308481,"date":"2019-01-24T06:45:35","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T06:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=308481"},"modified":"2019-01-24T06:45:35","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T06:45:35","slug":"bihar-rjd-leader-raghuvar-rai-shot-dead-by-unidentified-assailants-in-samastipur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bihar-rjd-leader-raghuvar-rai-shot-dead-by-unidentified-assailants-in-samastipur\/","title":{"rendered":"Bihar: RJD leader Raghuvar Rai shot dead by unidentified assailants in Samastipur"},"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-301486 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/crime-scene-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/crime-scene-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/crime-scene-218x150.jpg 218w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/crime-scene-696x476.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/crime-scene.jpg 711w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/crime-scene-614x420.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Raghuvar Rai on Thursday was shot by unidentified assailants outside his residence in Kalyanpur block of Samastipur, Bihar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The leader was taken to Darbhanga Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) for medical treatment where he succumbed to his injuries.<\/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 reports, Rai was shot at by two motorcycle borne assailants when he had gone for a morning walk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Angry over the killing, hundreds of his supporters later blocked the road near Janardanpur on the Darbhanga-Patna route.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A case was registered.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Further details are awaited.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Raghuvar Rai on Thursday was shot by unidentified assailants outside his residence in Kalyanpur block of Samastipur, Bihar. The leader was taken to Darbhanga Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) for medical treatment where he succumbed to his injuries. According to reports, Rai was shot at by two motorcycle borne assailants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":301486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2915,2089,2014],"tags":[842,10679],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308481"}],"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=308481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308482,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308481\/revisions\/308482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}