Pataudi: Five sentenced to life imprisonment for shooting contractor in 2021

Sandeep Turan, public relations officers of Gurugram police, said that the court of additional sessions judge Sunil Kumar Dewan pronounced the sentence to Ajay Kumar, Jitender Singh, Rohit Kumar, Arun Kumar and Sandeep Kumar during the trial where strong evidences against them were produced by the prosecution.

Published on: Oct 10, 2025, 08:44:17 IST

By Debashish Karmakar

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A sessions court sentenced five convicts to rigorous life imprisonment on Thursday for shooting a man dead and leaving his brother injured over a rivalry about supplying workforce to an e-commerce firm warehouse in Pataudi in October 2021.

The deceased, Ajit Singh, 44, was the main contractor for supplying manpower to a large warehouse of the firm.

His rivals were supplying a small part of the workforce and wanted to take over the entire business but Singh denied to back down following which they opened fire on him and his brother Mahendra Singh, 46, a restaurant owner, while they were sitting together in Sankpa village on Pataudi road on the morning of October 8, 2021.

Ajit was rushed to a nearby private hospital and then to another hospital in Sector 38 where he died in the course of treatment soon.

Sandeep Turan, public relations officers of Gurugram police, said that the court of additional sessions judge Sunil Kumar Dewan pronounced the sentence to Ajay Kumar, Jitender Singh, Rohit Kumar, Arun Kumar and Sandeep Kumar during the trial where strong evidences against them were produced by the prosecution

The court pronounced them guilty under Section 302 (murder) of Indian Penal Code along with fine of ₹50,000 on each of them. “The court also sentenced each of them to life imprisonment and ₹50.000 fine under Section 120B (criminal conspiracy) and 10 years’ imprisonment and ₹50,000 fine under Section 307 (attempt to murder),” he said.

Turan said Jitender was additionally sentenced to five and seven years’ of imprisonment and a cumulative fine of ₹50,000 under sections 25-1B and 27(1) of the Arms Act.

On Mahender’s complaint, an FIR was registered against unidentified suspects at the Pataudi police station. After investigation, police arrested the five suspects and also recovered the pistol used in the murder.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Debashish Karmakar
Debashish Karmakar is a principal correspondent with the Hindustan Times, Gurugram bureau. He has a vast journalistic experience of almost 14 years of covering crime, court, power, transport, administration, weather and other beats while working across various organisations. He has been covering Gurugram, Faridabad, Nuh, Palwal and other districts of southern Haryana for more than four and a half years. He has produced several breaking and exclusive stories while reporting from the ground where he maintains a strong presence on a daily basis. He writes news articles which are hard-hitting and accurate. With his strong bureaucratic sources, he frequently writes stories to expose the failure of the system forcing authorities to take necessary course-corrective steps. Besides crime, important convictions and court orders, he also writes on human-angle stories, on power issues and challenges faced by the residents on a daily basis in Gurugram and neighbouring areas. In the past, he worked for media houses like The Times of India, where he extensively reported on important government matters and daily proceedings at the Patna High Court. He has also worked in the electronic media and had done ground coverage on the Kedarnath deluge that wrecked Uttarakhand in 2013.Read More

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