Four days after Shri Rashtriya Rajput Karni Sena president Sukhdev Singh Gogamedi was brazenly gunned down at his Jaipur residence, three accused have been arrested from Chandigarh by the Delhi Police Crime Branch in a joint operation with the Rajasthan Police, reports PTI.
The three accused have been identified as Nitin Fauji from Dungarpur, Mahendragarh, Haryana; Rohit Rathore from Makrana, Rajasthan and Uddham Singh from Hisar, Haryana, said Ravindra Yadav, Special CP (Crime), Delhi Police.
“On request from Rajasthan Police, we launched an operation to nab the accused who were travelling to Delhi from Didwana (in Rajasthan) in a bus. We found that they later took an auto from Dharuhera to Rewari where they took a train for Hisar. From Hisar, they took a taxi for Manali, Himachal Pradesh. We arrested them while they were returning from Himachal Pradesh yesterday,” Yadav said.
The Karni Sena chief was gunned down in the living room of his house in Rajasthan’s Jaipur on December 5, purported video of which was captured on CCTV camera.
Additional Director General of Rajasthan Police (Crime) Dinesh MN said Fauji and Rathore were in hiding in Chandigarh. The shooters were nabbed from Hotel Kamal Palace in Chandigarh and were brought to the Crime Branch Office in Delhi earlier today.
“The SIT formed by the Rajasthan Director General of Police and the Delhi Police caught the accused late on Saturday,” Dinesh, who is supervising the 11-member SIT, told PTI.
A day earlier, one of the conspirators in the case, identified as Ramveer Jat, who had allegedly prepared the groundwork for Fauji — his friend — in Jaipur ahead of the killing, was arrested in Jaipur.
Police said that the accused had entered the Gogamedi’s home on the pretext of meeting him and, after talking for a few minutes, opened fire at Gogamedi. They also shot dead their accomplice Naveen Shekhawat, through whom they had secured access to the Karni Sena chief’s residence.
Gangster Rohit Godara, linked to the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, had claimed responsibility for the murder. He accused Gogamedi of backing his enemies.