48 hours after Ghaziabad shooting, cops yet to track key suspect
Ghaziabad: Nearly 48 hours after businessman
Rahul Dagar
was shot dead outside a highrise in Ghaziabad's Raj Nagar Extension, cops have searched more than 20 possible hideouts of the suspects and detained five persons for questioning, but are yet to arrest his business partner, the key accused in the case, or the six others named in the FIR.
Senior officials said they are keeping a watch on airports to ensure the accused don't leave the country.
Six gunmen had come in a car and shot Rahul, who owns a hotel at Haldwani in Uttarakhand, and his nephew Ashish just outside their society, Classic Residency, around 9.30 pm on Sunday. Rahul died on the spot after a bullet hit him in the stomach. Ashish, who was hit on the leg, continues to be under treatment.
Rahul's brother-in-law Avinash, who was also present at the spot and assaulted by the criminals, had identified the hotelier's business partner Nagendra Chaudhary and three other attackers—Mohit Chaudhary, Ritesh Bindal and a man who goes by the name Mantri—in his complaint.
He claimed Nagendra and his brother Manish were Rahul's business partners and had a fallout with him over managing the finances of their hotel, Shiva Palace, and had even threatened him a few days before the murder.
"Nagendra, Mohit, Mantri, Ritesh and two other men pulled up outside the society in a car. First, they assaulted Rahul and Ashish. They turned to me as I started shouting for help. Then, right before my eyes, Nagendra and Mohit shot at Rahul and Ashish.
Rahul had immediately collapsed to the ground, but Mohit sat on his chest and tried to strangle him," the complaint filed by Avinash stated.
On Tuesday, ACP Nandgram Poonam Mishra said police have reviewed footage of CCTV cameras installed near the commercial complex outside the society. The officer said one of the men, Mohit Chaudhary, can be seen firing at Rahul in one of the feeds. It also showed him trying to strangle Rahul, even as he lay bleeding on the ground.
"Six of the accused are absconding. More than five teams are looking for them. We detained Ritesh Bindal on Monday. He was called in for questioning again on Tuesday. The man has multiple businesses, like real estate and electronics, and has an office in Classic Residency's commercial area. His call details show that he was at the crime spot on Sunday evening when Rahul Dagar was murdered. We are trying to ascertain his role in the case," the ACP said.
Earlier, police told TOI that Ritesh had filed an FIR against Rahul and Avinash on May 31, a day before the shooting, accusing the two men of barging into his house with weapons and misbehaving with his family. The FIR was lodged under BNS sections 333 (house-trespass after preparation for hurt, assault or wrongful restraint), 351 (3) (criminal intimidation), and 352 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace).
Besides Ritesh, four other persons have been detained for questioning, too, police said.
A senior police officer told TOI that Mohit frequently travelled to Duba,i and cops have alerted the Airports Authority of India about the suspect. Since Monday, police have also searched more than 20 places across Delhi-NCR, but no arrests have been made yet.
While Rahul's business partner Nagendra is the key suspect in the case, the FIR also names his brother Manish and five others: Mohit, Ritesh, Mantri, and two unknown persons. The case has been file under BNS sections 103 (murder), 109 (attempt to murder), 115 (2) (voluntarily causing hurt), 190 (every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object), 191 (2) (rioting), 191 (3) (rioting, armed with deadly weapon).
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