Gurgaon, March 25
Assistant commissioner of police with the Delhi police Rajbir Singh, popularly known as “encounter specialist”, was allegedly shot dead by a property dealer, Vijay Bhardwaj, in his office on the Mehrauli-Gurgaon road yesterday following a dispute over money.

Sources said Rajbir had given around Rs 20 lakh to the accused for investment. Rajbir had been demanding Rs 85 lakh from the property dealer as his profit from these investments, on which Vijay expressed his helplessness due to his dwindling financial position.

Ironically, the property dealer killed Rajbir using a revolver, which the ACP had lent him three days ago.

While talking to mediapersons, Vijay confessed that he had killed Rajbir as he was pressuring him for the payment of the money, which Rajbir had lent him.

He said he had three messages recorded in his cell phone in which Rajbir had threatened to kill him. “I wanted to commit suicide, but my family found the suicide letter and stopped me,” added Bhardwaj.

When asked what happened yesterday night that forced him to kill Rajbir, Bhardwaj said he was suffering great loss in his business, which he was unable to convey to Rajbir. Last evening when Rajbir came to his office and started abusing him, he could not control his anger and shot him dead.

He said he had made up his mind to kill Rajbir if he would not give him some more time to arrange the money.

Bhardwaj said he sent his servant to purchase candles as there was no light in his office and he shot dead Rajbir with the revolver from behind.

When asked where were the security personnel of Rajbir at the time of the incident, he said every time Rajbir visited him, he used to ask his security guard to stay at a petrol pump near his office with their vehicle. The incident has raised several questions. How could Rajbir give a weapon to Bhardwaj when he did not have a licence? Whose weapon did Singh give to Vijay? Why did Rajbir only take a gunman and a driver to Vijay’s office when he had been provided Z security?