The prime accused in Ranjit Bora murder case was produced before Chief Judicial Magistrate Court (CJM) on Sunday.

The accused, identified as Shah Alam Talukdar, was remanded in police custody for another five days.

Last Friday, Talukdar tried to commit suicide while in lockup.

The prime accused in the murder of Guwahati-based businessman Ranjit Bora, Shah Alam Talukdar had been caught by Dispur Police, who later got his custody for questioning.

He was being kept inside lockup at the police station where he attempted to take his own life.

According to police, Talukdar broke a toilet mug and tried to cut his hand with the broken part of the mug. However, he was found by the police in a bloodied condition, who rushed him for medical attention.

Earlier on February 6, Dispur Police got the custody of Shah Alam Talukdar for seven days. He was the mastermind of the six-member gang who had planned and plotted the murder of the Guwahati-based businessman.

A Special Investigation Team (SIT) had been formed to probe into the murder of Ranjit Bora. The Guwahati police continued extensive search drives to nab all accused.

According to the police, the miscreants were following and keeping a strict vigil on Bora’s daily routine at least three weeks prior to his murder. The police also stated that the six-member gang was involved in many heinous crimes in the past too.

On February 5, many facts regarding past crimes in which Talukdar was involved had come to the fore. As per reports, Shah Alam had illegally occupied the building of an elderly couple for running a school named Excel Academy in Guwahati’s Panjabari.

He had signed an agreement of 11 months with the elderly couple in this regard. The agreement was signed in 2019 itself. Alam had to pay an outstanding amount of Rs 13 lakhs to the owner of the house.

It may be noted that on November 21, when Ranjit Bora, the manager of local dairy company Purabi Dairy headed to the bank to deposit money, two bike-borne miscreants arrived and opened fire at him in the Panjabari area in broad daylight and fled with the money.