The Delhi Police has arrested three men who had killed a man and injured his father when the duo tried to stop them from stealing a car in southeast Delhi's Jaitpur area last month. The trio had also opened fire on the father-son duo while trying to flee. The weapon was also seized.
The accused have been identified as Shehnawaj alias Aayan (21), Ankur Dubey alias Max (22) and Mohammad Yasir alias Baloo (19). It was on February 24, when a 25-year-old youth, brother of a specially-abled, had died while saving his father who was attacked by four auto-lifters caught red-handed stealing vehicles from southeast Delhi's Jaitpur area during the early hours. In their bid to escape, four auto lifters tried to speed away, crushing the father-son duo, leaving the son, spot dead.
The deceased was then identified as Vishal, who lived with his father Mohan lal, sister Shivani, younger specially-abled brother Rohit andmother, in Jaitpur area. According to the police, the incident tookplace around 4 am, when Shivani and Rohit heard some noise in the locality and woke up. On seeing out of their window, the siblings found that two men are breaking glass of a WagonR car parked in the area, trying to steal the vehicle.
Seeing that the two suspicious men are about to flee with the car that belonged to one of their neighbours, the father-son duo rushed out of their house and raised alarm. Since it was early in the morning, neighbours kept sleeping, the family claimed. Seeing the father-son, the two auto lifters also got scared and in a bid to escape, they started the WagonR car while another rushed to the vehicle they had come on, a senior police officer had then said.
Meanwhile, the father son tried to catch hold of the accused and a scuffle started between them. "It was then that one of the accused started the car on which they had arrived and tried to speed away. As Mohan lal tried to snatch the keys from the auto lifters, they drove away with him hanging on the vehicle. To save his father, Vishal pulled lal away but came under the speeding car and accused fled," the police said.
DCP southeast, Chinmoy Biswal said, during investigation post mortem revealed that the deceased was shot dead by the accused. "On the basis of intelligence beat staff zeroed in on one suspect identified as Shehnawaj and his friend Mohammad Yaseer. On Holi, they were arrested. On sustained interrogation, they disclosed they had come to steal a stereo from the car but when the victims tried to resist them they along with their associate namely Ankur Dubey fired upon them and fled away. On their instance, Dubey was arrested from Karawal Nagar," Biswal said.