Arun Gupta murder case cracked, claims Delhi Police

The breakthrough in the case comes seven days after Gupta was shot dead.

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New Delhi: Delhi Police on Sunday night claimed to have cracked the Arun Gupta murder case with the arrest of two persons besides detaining the victim's two brothers-in-law.

The breakthrough in the case came seven days after Gupta, a businessman, was shot dead by three motorcycle-borne men in the Capital’s Kalkaji area.

Four others, including the second wife of one of the brothers-in-law, have also been detained by the police.

The two men were picked up from Buland Shehar in Uttar Pradesh and were placed under arrest after they confessed to the killing, a senior police official claimed.

The duo, the official claimed, have told investigators that they had accepted Rs five lakh from the brothers-in-law to kill Gupta. Only Rs 2 lakh has been handed over to the police.

During interrogation, Dinesh Mittal, the younger of the brothers-in-law, had reportedly confessed to paying the amount and was detained. Sneh Mittal, the other brother-in-law, was also detained, the official said.

The motive behind the murder is said to be the Mittal brothers' unhappiness over their father gifting a farmhouse in Mehrauli worth about Rs 100 crore to Gupta's wife Sadhna.

Police had interrogated Gupta's brothers-in-law after the victim's family blamed the Mittal brothers claiming that they were not on good terms with the deceased’s family.

Police had also released sketches of the bikers who shot at Gupta last week.

The relations between the two families soured after the death of Gupta's father-in-law Madanlal Mittal last year.