Car thieves who killed 25-yr-old, injured father in Jaitpur arrested
NEW DELHI : Three men have been arrested for shooting dead a 25-year-old man and leaving his father badly injured for trying to stop them from stealing car parts in south Delhi’s Jaitpur a week ago, police said on Saturday.
The trio’s interrogation revealed that a Wagon R car used by them in the crime was robbed by them earlier in February, said Chinmoy Biswal deputy commissioner of police (south-east).
The gang was mainly into stealing stereo sets and batteries from cars parked in residential colonies, the officer said.
When they visited Saurabh Vihar in Jaitpur in the early hours of February 24, they did not realise they were being watched by a local resident, Rohit.
Rohit alerted his f ather, Madan Mohan, and brother, Vishal Prasad. Together, the three of them rushed downstairs to confront the suspects.
The officer said that Madan and Vishal had tried to snatch the car keys to immobilise them, but the suspects had rolled up the car windows before rashly driving away. The father-son duo was badly injured and rushed to a hospital where Vishal was declared brought dead. Madan continues to remain hospitalised at AIIMS.
A bullet was found from Vioishal’s body during the postmortem. His father’s surgery too revealed a bullet lodged in his body.
In their investigation, police focused on “rowdy and ruffian elements” of south Delhi. “Our beat policemen learnt that a 21-year-old man, Shahnawaz, was in hiding.
His overall whereabouts seemed suspicious. Based on secret information, we nabbed him and his friend, Md Yaseer, from Saurabh Vihar on Friday,” said the officer.
The duo allegedly tried to mislead the investigators, but “contradictions” in their statements gave them away, said the officer. At their instance, the third suspect, Ankur Dubey, was also nabbed.