Prisoner admitted in private hospital shot dead in Patna-OxBig News Network

A prisoner out on parole was shot dead inside a private hospital in Patna on Thursday (July 17, 2025), located at the busy Raja Bazar locality early morning, when four unidentified person opened indiscriminate firing.

According to the police, the deceased was identified as Chandan Mishra, a resident of Buxar district and he was a dreaded criminal and imprisoned in Beur Jail in connection with a murder case.

The incident took place under the Shastri Nagar police station when Mishra was undergoing treatment at Paras Hospital. The assailants entered the building where he was hospitalised in room number 209 and opened fire. As per the police, there were a total five men out of which four entered the hospital and the fifth one was waiting outside in a car.

The incident has created panic among the visitors, hospital staff, nurses and doctors. Soon after the firing, police reached the spot including Patna Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Kartikeya K Sharma.

Asked about how many rounds of bullet fired on the deceased, Mr. Sharma said, “We will only come to know after the postmortem report but several rounds of firing were carried out. Chandan Mishra is a dreaded criminal and more than one dozen cases are registered against him. Initial investigation indicates that he has been murdered in gang war from the opposite gang. He died during treatment after being hit by bullets.”

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He further said, “We have the faces of the shooter captured in the CCTV footage and we have already shared it with Buxar Police to identify them. Investigation is on and soon police will arrest the culprits.”

The daylight murder at around 7:30 a.m. in the State capital is another shocking criminal incident after the murder of Patna-based industrialist Gopal Khemka on July 4, 2025. 

Earlier this week, a local businessman in Sitamarhi, a farmer and an advocate was shot dead by the criminal in Patna raising serious questions on the law and order situation in Bihar.

Opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Congress have been continuously attacking Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar over terming Bihar as India’s “crime capital”.

On July 16, when a question was asked from Additional Director General (ADG) (Headquarters) Kundan Krishnan regarding increase in the murder, he had claimed that that the statistics does not suggest that the average crime graph has witnessed an increase.

Mr. Krishnan had asserted that being an election year and a narrative is being built through misinformation and disinformation.

Attacking the government, Leader of Opposition Tejashwi Yadav posted a message on social media ‘X’ saying, “Government criminals stormed into the ICU and shot a patient admitted to the hospital. Is anyone anywhere safe in Bihar? Did it happen before 2005?”.