Cops suspect personal enmity behind firing

NEW DELHI: Soon after four masked men went on a rampage, shooting indiscriminately, killing a 45-year-old man and injuring four others in Wazirabad Market, Northeast

NEW DELHI: Soon after four masked men went on a rampage, shooting indiscriminately, killing a 45-year-old man and injuring four others in Wazirabad Market, Northeast Delhi’s Bhajanpura area on Tuesday morning, the police zeroed down on the suspects with the help of the CCTV footage accessed from the area and detained more than seven people in connection to the case.

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The police said that the men wanted to kill Kailash and Rajan Gupta due to some personal enmity.

“Kailash Gupta worked as a property dealer and it appears that he had a long standing enmity with the men. After speaking to Gupta’s family members, we found out that they had an old property dispute with a few persons and Gupta was earlier threatened by them. Based on their suspicion, we have detained persons for questioning and the arrests will soon be made,” a senior police officer said.

The police also said that a business rival may be behind the incident.

“Gupta’s family also suspects that a business rival, from whom Gupta split of late, may be behind the planned murder. It is possible that the business rival, roped in contract killers to carry out the murder,” an investigator told HT.