A 22-year-old man allegedly involved in the murders of former INlD MlA Bharat Singh and his driver, who was also an eyewitness in Singh’s murder, has been arrested from Gurgaon, police said on Saturday. The accused identified as Ravi Shokeen alias Chuja, went absconding after Singh’s murder on March 29 and the Crime Branch of Delhi Police failed to track him. He was later declared a proclaimed offender with a reward of Rs 50,000 on his arrest, said police.
Shokeen’s name resurfaced after police arrested a woman in connection with the murder of Singh’s driver Vipin near Japanese Park in outer Delhi’s Rohini sub-city, they said.
Shokeen was one of the accomplices of Hemant, another accused in Bharat Singh murder case who the Crime Branch failed to track down, and his brother Aditya Shokeen, who allegedly gunned down Vipin on Tuesday evening, said police.
Vipin was honey trapped with the help of a woman who was a friend of Aditya. The woman contacted Vipin, who was married and had two children, over a social network site. On Tuesday, the woman had called Vipin for a meeting and convinced him to take her near Japanese Park, where he was allegedly murdered by a group of assailants comprising Hemant (still at large), the Shokeen brothers and two others, said police.
“On Friday, police received a tip off that Shokeen would come near the CNG pump at Rajeev Chowk in Gurgaon, following which a trap was laid and he was arrested,” said DCP (Southwest) RA Sanjeev.