Bihar BJP leader Visheshwar Ojha murder case: One accused arrested

Patna: One of the accused in the Bihar Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) vice president Visheshwar Ojha murder case, Harendra Singh alias Bhua Singh, has been arrested by the police.

The former BJP MLA was yesterday gunned down near Ara in Bhojpur district in south-central Bihar.

Ojha was returning from a wedding when some unidentified assailants fired at him and fled the scene. Ojha`s driver and a man also got injured in the incident.

This was the second BJP leader to be killed in the last 48 hours.

Yesterday morning another local BJP leader Kedar Singh was shot dead in Chapra.

Expressing sadness over the deaths of two leaders, BJP spokesperson Shahnawaaz Husaain said that people of Bihar do not want jungle raj to return.