The Crime Branch has been roped in to assist a probe into the killing of an e-rickshaw driver who had objected to two men urinating outside the GTB Nagar Metro Station. The police said that eight teams are working to crack the case. They are probing other angles including personal enmity and professional rivalry, said a senior police officer.
Three days after a 32-year-old e-rickshaw driver was mercilessly beaten to death by a group of 25 students over raising objections to urinating in the public space outside the GTB Nagar Metro Station on Saturday evening, Delhi Police suspects personal enmity to be one of the main reasons behind the murder of Ravindra Kumar, the e-rickshaw driver.
“One month ago, Ravindra and his brother had a scuffle with three e-rickshaw drivers in the Malka Ganj area. Ravindra had allegedly beaten those three e-rickshaw drivers after which they had approached the Subzi Mandi Police Station. But a compromise was reached and the complaint given by the three e-rickshaw drivers was taken back.We are probing the murder from this angle too,” said a senior police officer.
“Initially, we were focusing on the angle that students from the Delhi University had attacked Ravindra,” said a senior police officer.
However, since no eyewitness has turned up to verify the presence of students, police are probing the matter from personal enmity angle.
Elaborating on this aspect, a senior police investigator, privy to the case, said, “We have questioned more than 30 students whose mobile location was found to be near the crime scene yet no leads have been found. Apart from that we called those three e-rickshaw drivers for questioning.”
More than 72 hours have passed but the Mukherjee Nagar police have not been able to establish the identity of the accused.
On Monday, after Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu, Delhi BJP president Manoj Tiwari offered `50,000 as interim relief to the family of Ravindra, police investigators working on the case had prepared a list of more than 1,200 students of the Delhi University. “While 300 students belong to the School of Open learning, close to 900 students are from Delhi University colleges. Apart from the Mukherjee Nagar police team, teams from Maurice Nagar police station and Special Task Force are also working on the matter.”
