GANGSTER HELD FOR ABDUCTING BIZMAN
With arrest, police foil contract killing of one businessman from NCR region
NEW DELHI: A Bihar-based gangster, who had kidnapped a Nepal business tycoon Suresh Kedia from Birganj, Nepal for ransom in 2016, was arrested by Crime Branch of Delhi Police from South Delhi's R K Puram area. The investigators claimed that with the arrest of the accused, they foiled the contract killing of one businessman from NCR region.
The accused was identified as Vikas Singh who was also wanted by Bihar Police for a daring broad daylight murder of fellow gangster Babloo Dubey in Bettiah Court on May 2017. Babloo Dubey was murdered over the distribution of huge ransom money collected from the kidnapped business tycoon of Nepal Suresh Kedia,” police said.
During interrogation, Singh revealed that he along with another Dubey kidnapped Kedia from Birganj, Nepal for ransom, Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime) Rajiv Ranjan stated. On May 28, 2016, on the intervention of Bihar Police, the victim was rescued after three days. “Startling revelation from Singh has come that Kedia after his release paid a gold worth Rs 10 crore to one of the kidnappers, in Chandni Chowk,” said Ranjan. The senior officer further added that Dubey planned this kidnapping while being in Buxer Jail along with his associates Kunal Singh, Rahul Singh, Vikas Singh and others. Later on, a dispute arose between the gangsters involved in kidnapping over the distribution of ransom money and Babloo Dubey was murdered while being produced in Bettiah Court from jail. The accused Vikas Singh (third from right) was arrested from South Delhi’s R K Puram area
The interrogations also revealed that accused Singh was hiding in Delhi with one Ashu Pahalwan and running an office of tour and travels in Delhi. When he was in jail in Bihar, he met one Ghazipur-based
inmate, who was arrested for liquor smuggling. The inmate had approached Vikas Singh for committing contract killing of one businessman of Ghaziabad, UP, for which the inmate agreed to pay Rs 15 lakh. The inmate had also brought two Chinese pistols with him from Bihar for killing the UP businessman.
The team of Crime Branch (STARS) of Delhi Police was formed under DCP (crime) Dr G Ram Gopal Naik. Main accused Singh and his associates demanded extortion money from the owner of Cambridge School, Raxaul, Motihari (Bihar). When he didn't pay the “Rangdari Tax”, the accused and his associates fired indiscriminately on the school children of Cambridge in which casualties also occurred. In another case, Singh was lodged in jail when he conspired with his associates Kunal Singh and attempted to kill one Parmeshwar Shah, Gramin Executive Engineer in Bihar Government, as he had not cleared the site plan of some projects.