The Delhi Police on Wednesday claimed to have arrested three people from neighbouring Ghaziabad in connection with the murder case of a 25-year-old criminal who was shot dead merely 50 metres from his house in national Capital’s Nand Nagri area.
On Monday night, the deceased identified as Vicky who was battling criminal cases -- three in Shahdara district and one at the Nand Nagri police station-- was stabbed multiple times and shot dead barely 50 metres away from his house in Nand Nagri area of east Delhi allegedly by four persons.
The arrested accused have been identified as Sumit(29), Raj (22) both resident of Nand Nagri, Ajay Tyagi(31), a resident of Modinagar. While one of their accomplice is absconding at the moment and police have also initiated manhunt to nab the fourth accused.
According to Atul Kumar Thakur, the DCP, North East district, after police received specific inputs regarding the accused, a trap was laid and they were arrested from Loni area of Ghaziabad.
“The three had been absconding since committing the crime. During interrogation, it was revealed that two days ago Vicky was involved in a scuffle with Sumit after the latter allegedly commented that Vicky was a bad influence on children in the area. A scuffle broke out after which Vicky conspired and planned to eliminate Vicky,” said the DCP. “The accused have been arrested under section 302/34 of IPC and 25/27 Arms Act. Police have also recovered the vehicle used in offence,” said the DCP adding that further investigation is going on and efforts are being made to nab the fourth absconding accused.