Raju Jha, a coal trader who was shot dead on Saturday evening by unidentified assailants on NH-19 in West Bengal's East Burdwan district, was travelling from Durgapur to Kolkata in a car registered in the name of an absconding accused in the .
He was on killed late Saturday evening. As per police records, towards the closing years of the previous Left Front regime in West Bengal before 2011, Jha s name came in the police reports following his involvement in a bicycle-theft racket in the coal belt of Raniganj area in the then Burdwan district and now West Burdwan district.Acco