A retired Assistant Commissioner of the Central Excise Department, Ram Kumar Singh, was shot dead by bike-borne assailants with 8 bullets on Thursday morning in Bhojpur (Arrah). This murder occurred exactly 90 days after he filed a complaint expressing apprehension about his own killing. In a sworn statement submitted to the Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) of Arrah Civil Court, Singh had detailed threats such as 'Your funeral will be taken out... one day your Ram Naam Satya will be done.' He had accused land mafias of land grabbing and creating forged documents.

The victim's son, Amit Kumar alias Goldy, has filed an FIR at Nawada police station. Among the 14 named accused are the then Inspector of Mufassil police station, Ram Kalyan Yadav, alleged journalist Manoj Kumar Singh alias Lucky, the main conspirator Chandan Kumar, and former revenue employee of Arrah circle, Vishnudev Singh. Ram Kumar Singh was out for his morning walk when the attackers ambushed him.

In his complaint, Singh had stated that a power of attorney was fraudulently created for a piece of land (Account No. 88, Khesra No. 69) in Singhi, under the Mufassil police station area, in his son Rajesh Kumar's name. He alleged that on the night of July 4, 2026, the accused, using weapons, demolished a six-foot boundary wall of the land with a JCB machine. A case (FIR No. 240/2026) was also registered at Mufassil police station regarding this incident.

Singh had further mentioned that Chandan Singh and Manoj Singh had threatened him in the presence of Mufassil police station in-charge Ram Kalyan Yadav at the Arrah Circle office, stating that the land walls would be demolished at any cost on the night of July 4. He had sought help from several district and state officials via email but received no administrative assistance. The threats also included claims that all employees and officials from the circle to the district level were under their control, and no one could harm them. Singh had expressed fears of murder, assault, theft, robbery, looting, and kidnapping. Following the incident, family members and neighbors blocked the Arrah-Patna Road with Singh's body.