Rajbir case gets murkier, cops suspect underworld link

UNDERWORLD LINKS? Rajbir made over 200 phone calls in March to numbers in Europe and Gulf.

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New Delhi: More startling revelations are emerging from the killing of encounter specialist Rajbir Singh. Police sources say Rajbir made over 200 phone calls in March to numbers in Europe and the Gulf.

Many of these calls were made to Amsterdam and Bangkok, the base of operations of underworld don Chhota Rajan. Police sources say they are probing a possible link.

Meanwhile the Haryana police, after their crime scene analysis, say no liquor bottle was present at the scene. And contrary to reports, Rajbir was shot from the backside.

“Two shots were fired and both the shots were fired from the backside and one shot went through the head, and the other shot gazing the temple was hit went to the chair opposite where he was sitting,” Joint Commissioner Gurgaon Police Manjit S Ehlawat says.

No sound was heard by Rajbir's security officers standing a short distance away. The Haryana police are yet to take Vijay Bhardwaj's — the prime accused — fingerprints, vital in confirming his confession that he pulled the trigger. It will also have to probe where the gun, that Bhardwaj allegedly used, came from.

The Kanpur ordinance factory has confirmed that the serial number on Bhardwaj's revolver belongs to a gun owned by a Jhajjar-based farmer Devender Singh.

“Devendar has a licensed weapon. He has been issued a license and he has been carrying a .32 revolver. The difference is that he is carrying a 2003 which he purchased in 2004,” Superintendent Police Jhajjar Shrikant Jadav says.

The gun belongs to Devender Singh, which proves that the gun Rajbir gave to Vijay Bhardwaj was illegal. Sources tell CNN-IBN that Rajbir procured that gun from the underworld.