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Papiya Ghosh: Historian's murder shocks Patna (India)

Papiya Ghosh, a noted historian and professor of Patna University, who was working hard to restore Bihar's image and academia, was brutally stabbed to death along with her maid in what police said was a robbery-related murder.

Police said Ghosh's home in an upscale Patna neighbourhood, barely 100 metres from the Pataliputra police station and a stone's throw from home commissioner Afzal Amanullah's house, was ransacked and valuables, including a computer, were stolen.

The assailants had stabbed the 53-year-old scholar and her 70-year-old maid Maltiya Devi, covered their bodies, and left.

The carnage was discovered by another daytime maid on Sunday morning, who raised an alarm when nobody responded to her knocks.

Ghosh and her sister, Tuktuk, an IAS officer, studied in Delhi University and were famous for their academic performance and activities beyond the classrooms.

Tuktuk, currently posted as special officer to Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee, rushed to Patna on Sunday for a last glimpse of her sister.

"Papiya was vigorously working to rebuild brand Bihar with her research work on Bihari diaspora,"said Shaibal Gupta, member-secretary of the Patna-based Asian Development Research Institute (ADRI) as news of the scholar's killing shocked Patna on Sunday morning. ...
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