Gurgaon police on Sunday claimed to have solved the murder case of a 50-year-old cloth merchant Sudhir Taneja, after arresting notorious criminal Suraj Kataria alias Chotu, along with his two accomplices on Saturday. Suraj was involved in half a dozen cases, including loot, dacoity and snatching. The police have recovered Rs 10,200 from their possession which they had looted from Taneja.
Three assailants shot Taneja, outside his shop in Sadar Bazar, on May 28 when he was closing for the day. The sequence was captured in CCTV?cameras, but the accused managed to flee with the victim’s scooty and cash.
Acting on a tip-off, a team from crime unit (Sector 39) led by inspector Varun Dahiya, conducted raids and arrested Suraj Kataria alias Chotu of village Basai, from Bahadurgarh bus stand, with his aide Manoj Kumar alias Monu from Gurgaon gaon and Suraj of Uttar Pradesh from Jyoti Park Gurugram.
“During the preliminary investigation, Suraj disclosed that he killed Taneja with the motive of snatching his bag, which he thought was full of cash. Suraj was of the view that Taneja always carried a good amount of cash with him while returning from the shop every evening,” Commissioner of police, Mohammad Akil, said.
During the investigation, the probe team had scanned multiple CCTV cameras footage including entry and exit points in Sadar Bazar. “The police team also questioned workers of Taneja and his neighbours and also took the help of human intelligence as well as technical surveillance to crack the case, Akil said.
“Suraj hired two culprits from Uttar Pradesh for the rekey of the victim and they were continuing following each and every movement of Taneja for the past one month. We scanned multiple CCTV footages in which we got the clue about the criminals. We had noticed their movement at Subhash Chowk on Sohna road. They killed the victim when he resists their bid and flees the spot with scooty and nearly Rs 2 lakh cash,” said Varun Dahiya Inchage crime unit (Sector-39).
The trio was produced in a city court on Sunday and remanded in four-day police custody.