After the arrest of millionaire realtor and politician Deepak Bhardwaj’s younger son Nitesh Bhardwaj and his lawyer and friend Baljeet Singh Sehrawat for hatching the conspiracy of the murder of his father, the police are now probing the role and involvement of Ramesh Kumari, the wife of slain BSP leader.
Police sources said Ramesh Kumari few months back met with the absconding Machendranath alias Swami Pratibhanand in their Shiksha Bharti School in Dwarka. However, the investigators did not have any crucial evidences against her so far and they are trying to ascertain her involvement into the conspiracy.
Police sources closed to the investigation said that Nitesh told the investigators that in the first week of January, her mother also met with Pratibhanand inside their school. During their meeting, another arrested conspirator, Baljeet Singh Sehrawat, the lawyer-cum-property dealer, was also present.
“The needle of suspicion now again rose on Bhardwaj’s wife as earlier she claimed that she don’t know Swami Pratibhanand. We are now again questioning her as during the interrogation of Nitesh, we came to know that, Deepak Bhardwaj was not treating her well and would beat her almost every day,” the sources added.
The Special Task Force (STF) of south district police under the supervision of Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (south district) PS Kushwah now trying to retrieve any evidences against her as two days before the incident, Nitesh destroyed one of cell phones, CCTV footages of the Dwarka School where he along with his mother and Sehrawat was seen walking around the school premises with Swami Pratibhanand.
Nitesh already told the investigators that in December 2012, Baljeet along with Swami came outside their Shiksha Bharti School in Dwarka where he met Swami for first time. “Nitesh also told the police her mother was also very depressed because of the harassment by his father and she also wanted to stop Bhardwaj’s move to prepare a ‘will’ in favour of a woman with whom he had maintained liaison for long,” the sources added.
After the arrest of hired contract killers Purushottam Rana alias Monu, and Sunil Mann, Rakesh, investigators were shocked after they came to know that Bhardwaj’s wife hails from the same village as Rakesh.