Ghaziabad police on Tuesday claimed to have cracked the sensational murderous attack on journalist Anuj Chaudhary on April 8. Police have arrested five persons who were involved in firing bullets on Chaudhary by barging into his house. Investigations have revealed that the assailants were hired by the main conspirator for Rs 7 lakh
Vaibhav Krishna, the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Ghaziabad said, a police team arrested Vishal, son of Shekhar Chaudhary, Yogendra alias Babli alias Tunda, s/o Om Prakash a resident of Muzaffarnagar, Boby a resident of a Ghaziabad and Vikas a close of Shekhar from Kamla Nehru Nagar in Ghaziabad on the basis of an information.
They were put to sustained interrogation in which they revealed that they engaged two shooters to kill Anuj Chaudhary. Taking lead from this the police tracked the alleged shooter in the loni area.
According to police when they raided the possible hide out of the shooter involved in the attack, two men on motorcycle were noticed moving in suspicious manner. When ordered to stop, they opened fire on the police team. Inspector Vinod Pandey, incharge of Sihani Gate police station sustained a bullet injury in his right hand. "During exchange of fire one of the assailant sustained bullet injury in his leg while his accomplice taking advantage of darknessmanaged to fled the spot . The police team rushed both the injured persons to a nearby hospital where both were admitted for treatment," said SSP.
During questioning he revealed his identity as Rohit Yadav a resident of Kasganj. He further confessed that he was involved in shooting Anuj Chaudhary.
The police allegedly recovered total six fire arms from their possession including a .32 pistol from Vishal which is looted from the journalist Anuj Chaudhary and a .315 bore country made pistol along with live cartridges, a .32 bore pistol from Yogendra alias Babli alias Tunda, a .12 bore country made gun, a .30 bore pistol from Boby and a .30 bore pistol along with live cartridges and a pulsar motorcycle from Rohit Yadav who was the main shooter in the crime.
Rohit allegedly confessed that he was hired for Rs. 7 lakh to kill the journalist, out of which Rs. 5 lakh were paid to him in advance near Diamond flyover. He told that he met Shekhar, the main conspirator, in Dasna jail when he was there in a murder case. He was given two mobile numbers to contact his men - Vishal and Tunda when came out from jail. They provided details. Vishal gave him .30 bore pistol and 15 cartridges, SSP said.