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'Bharadwaj shot dead Rajbir with gun reported lost'
Published on Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 15:26, Updated on Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 23:44 in Nation section
Tags: Rajbir Singh, Murder , New Delhi
BLOOD ON KHAKI: Assistant Commissioner Rajbir Singh was famous and controversial.
New Delhi: Property dealer Vijay Bharadwaj murdered Delhi Police officer Rajbir Singh and no one else was involved in the killing, the Gurgaon Police said on Sunday.
Rajbir Singh was an assistant commissioner of police and an “encounter specialist”, credited with over 50 ‘kills’. Bharadwaj, his friend of many years, allegedly murdered the police officer at his Sector 14 office in Gurgaon, Haryana, late on March 24 following a row over money.
Gurgaon Police Commissioner Mohinder Lal on Sunday told a press conference that the revolver Bharadwaj used to kill Singh belonged to Ashok Sohran, the Additional Superintendent of Police in Hissar, Haryana. According to Sohran, he lost the pistol during a “raid” last year.
"The weapon used for killing (Singh) was the service revolver of Hissar's additional superintendent of police, which he lost during a raid last year," said Lal.
ASP Ashok Shoran had lodged an FIR in this regard July 21, 2007 in Bhiwani. According to the FIR No. 103, the weapon was lost during a raid in the fields of Dadri in Hisar, he said.
The Gurgaon Police claim that Singh gave the pistol to Bharadwaj three days before he was murdered. It will now investigate how Sohran’s pistol reached Singh.
Police Commissioner Lal said Bharadwaj, who is under arrest, was unable to repay the money he had taken from Singh and others. The amount of money Singh had invested with Bharadwaj is still being investigated.
Lal said his department’s investigation into the murder will be over in a week and he had no objection to demands made by Singh’s family that the Central Bureau of Investigation probe the case.
Bhardwaj, who is in 14-day judicial custody, has allegedly made a confessional statement that he fired two bullets into Singh's head with a .32 bore revolver.
The Gurgaon district court on Sunday asked police to guard Bhardwaj, who moved a plea alleging threat to his life.
(With inputs Brijesh Pandey and Mansi Sharma)
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How did this much decorated encounter specialist amass so
much wealth disproportionate to his known sources of his
official income.It
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Indian economy is ruined by the Real Estate Agents and poverty is increased. Unfortunately our politicians and government employees themselves
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