Title - Railway police announce Rs 1 lakh reward for clue to Assam scholar's killers

Bhagalpur: According to railway IG vinay Kumar, a reward of Rs 1 lakh  has been announced by railway police to anyone who provides information about the killers of Assam PhD scholar Pritam Bhattacharya.Police investigations are still on and different teams of  police are raiding the hideouts of criminal gangs operating in the area to crack the case, sources said.Earlier, the body of Pritam Bhattacharjee, a PhD scholar from Karimganj missing since July 9, had been found in a badly mutilated condition in Bihar.The body of 25-year-old was found late on Sunday night near the railway track at Bhagalpur with Bihar Police saying the assailants killed Pritam and dumped his body.The scholar had boarded the Assam-Avadh Express from Guwahati on July 8, went missing from Naugachia Station the next day.The assailants had snatched his laptop and camera during the two-minute halt at the station following which the youth chased them on the platform.