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PATNA: A spurt in crime in the past 24 hours, which saw the killing of an engineer and six others, has raised fresh question marks about the law and order situation in Bihar under Nitish Kumar ’s new administration. Talking to the police brass following the December 26 murder of two private construction firm engineers in Darbhanga, the chief minister had only on Monday warned that crime would not be tolerated in the state.The body of 43-year-old Ankit Kumar was found at Barati village in Vaishali district on Tuesday morning. Vaishali superintendent of police Rakesh Kumar said Ankit was from Muzaffarpur. “He was the quality manager of a private telecom company,” he said. “Ankit’s throat was slit and his body was abandoned on the roadside.”The police said Ankit was probably killed in a car. “His elder brother said Ankit had left home with a couple of his office colleagues on the night of December 27, but never returned home,” the SP said.Also on Tuesday, the body of 14-year-old Rahul was found at Satmalpur village in Samastipur district. The teenager had been abducted from the district’s Pokhraira village three months ago.On Monday night, a couple were stabbed to death allegedly by some relatives in Dhoom Tola in Katihar district. The victims were Khedan Das, 45, and his first wife, Soilita Devi, 34. Their 12-year-old son Deepak Kumar was injured in the attack.Nawal Kushwaha, a contractor’s supervisor at Kahalgaon Super Thermal Power Station, was shot dead near the KSTPS employees’ residential colony in Bhagalpur district on Monday. Police sources said Kushwaha’s brother-in-law was behind the killing.In Muzaffarpur, three motorcycle-borne criminals shot dead grocery trader Suresh Chaudhary, 38, near Zero Mile on Monday night.Also on Monday, the body of one Mohammad Kamar Alam, 34, was recovered in Patna City. He seemed to have been beaten to death with bricks.