Fazilpuria link or unpaid loan? All theories under scanner in Gurgaon murder
Delhi-based property dealer Rohit Shokeen's friend, a witness in the case, has told cops that the 39-year-old was asked to come to Gurgaon to collect Rs 30 lakh that he had lent years ago to a friend, Deepak Nandal.
Sources said on Wednesday the witness told police that Nandal had borrowed the money from Shokeen in 2023 and hadn't returned it despite repeated requests.
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Shokeen had even insulted Nandal over the debt to their common friends, and he was humiliated because of it, they said.
The friendship between the two deteriorated after Shokeen's father last year filed a complaint with the Delhi commissioner's office, alleging that Nandal and his family were threatening them with consequences.
Nandal, he said, had borrowed money from Shokeen to make a music video.
On Aug 4, Shokeen was standing near his car near Palm Hills society in Sector 77 when two motorcyclists with their faces covered struck him with around a dozen bullets.
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Shokeen's Delhi-based friend survived the attack unhurt as he had just crossed the road to buy cigarettes. "The friend who accompanied Shokeen to Gurgaon but survived the attack told us that Nandal, who lives abroad, had asked him to collect the loaned money from his aides here.
But we are still verifying the same," a police officer said.
So far, investigators have not concluded any motive for the attack.
After the Aug 4 murder, gangster Sunil Sardhania on social media claimed responsibility for killing Shokeen.
"I, Sunil Sardhania, got Rohit Shokeen murdered at SPR Road in Gurgaon. Fazilpuria will have to pay our money or else many people will die in this fight," the post declared, mentioning even Deepak Nandal.
The police officer told TOI cops are working to authenticate Sardhania's claim made online.
TOI reported earlier this week that the murder could be the result of a bitter fallout between Fazilpuria and Nandal, who had previously produced the rapper's songs.
Sardhania, a member of the Himanshu Bhai gang, purportedly warned the singer to return Rs 5 crore to Nandal, who had invested in building the rapper's career.
Fazilpuria, however, consistently denied any loan arrangements and said that only music labels invested in his career. Cops had briefly detained a food delivery executive who witnessed the murder but was not linked to the shooting.
The police officer said they have not found any evidence that indicates the involvement of Shokeen's friend who survived the attack in the murder plan.
"We are investigating all possible angles and theories," the officer said.
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