41-year-old scrap dealer shot dead in Seelampur
NEW DELHI: A 41-year-old scrap dealer was shot dead by two bike borne assailants in Old Seelampur area of northeast Delhi on Tuesday night.
The gunmen managed to flee after the shooting, with initial police probe suggesting that the victim, Zafar Qureshi, having links with jailed gangster Nasir.
Qureshi had 26 criminal cases against him. Police are now probing if Qureshi was shot by the same men who killed Wajid and Arif — two other men suspected of having ties with gangster Nasir — on Sunday night. Police are yet to solve the two cases and are probing the role of Nasir’s rival Chennu, another jailed gangster, for the killings.
Police said they received a call about the shooting around 7pm on Tuesday.
Qureshi was apparently in the scrap market in Old Seelampur when two men on a motorcycle shot him and fled.
Local residents immediately made a call to the police control room and Qureshi was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was declared brought dead. A case of murder was registered at the Krishna Nagar police station.
The address in the police record showed Qureshi as a resident of Gandhi Nagar but probe revealed that he was not living in that house with his brothers. He was residing in Brahmapuri, where Wajid was shot dead on Sunday night.
“The deceased had a ciminal history. We are at present trying to ascertain if the shooting was the result of such enimity. We have received some clues and will crack the case soon,” said additional DCP, Shahdara , Ved Prakash Surya.
Surya also said that though the police had no evidence to suggest that Qureshi had been killed in a gang war, they cannot rule out the possibility entirely. Qureshi’s post mortem was conducted at Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital.