One shooter arrested from Panipat in NHAI consultant murder case | Jaipur News
The sharpshooter has been identified as Dharmendra Singh, 27, additional commissioner of police (crime) Ajay Pal Lamba told TOI. The second suspect is on the run. Police have learned that the sharpshooters were promised jobs in constructions projects.
Singh was arrested following the interrogation of four key conspirators — Karandeep Sheoran (29), the owner of E5 Infrastructure Pvt Ltd, Naveen Bisla (31), Vikas Singh (33) and Amit Nehra (26).
They were arrested on Friday. “Initial probe pointed out that the sharpshooters were allegedly hired for Rs 15 lakh to kill Chawla on August 26. However, as more facts emerged, it turned out that Singh and the second shooter were also promised jobs at constructions sites,” Lamba told TOI. Sources said two shooters were ferried from Haryana to Jaipur on August 26.
They were dropped near Amrapali Circle. From there, they walked to the NHAI office. They were given a “signal” shortly before 2.40pm, that the man walking out of the NHAI office to smoke a cigarette is their target. The shooters walked near Chawla and fired a single shot from a weapon (suspected to be a pistol). Police said, the shooters were told that a black SUV would wait to take them back to Haryana after the crime. Plans soon went awry when the accused could not get to the getaway vehicle (the black SUV), driven by two of the conspirators. “Singh and his aide were completely bewildered when they could not find the promised ride back to Haryana. In panic, they moved around Vaishali Nagar area, looking for auto-rickshaws and buses to get away,” an official said, adding neither Singh nor his partner knew anything about Jaipur.
“The two were completely confused and thought that it would be best to return to the crime scene. They later realised that police would be at the spot and fled to different cities,” the police official added.
Commissioner praises cops who cracked case:
City police commissioner Anand Shrivastav on Saturday felicitated the police team that cracked the Vaishali Nagar murder case. Speaking at the Vaishali Nagar police station, Shrivastav lauded the team led by additional commissioner, crime, Ajay Pal Lamba, DCP crime, Digant Anand, DCP west, Richa Tomar, Additional DCP, Ram Singh, ACP Rai Singh Beniwal, and SHO Anil Kumar.
