Gurgaon, March 30
In a new twist to the murder of Rajbir Singh, the police today claimed that the revolver used by property agent Vijay Bhardwaj to kill the Delhi police “encounter specialist” belonged to an additional superintendent of police (ASP) in Hisar.
The gun allegedly used by Bhardwaj to kill Rajbir originally belonged to Hisar ASP Ashok Sohran, Gurgaon commissioner of police Mohinder Lal said. Sohran has claimed that he had lost the weapon during a police operation.
He said the same revolver had reached Bharadwaj which he used for killing Rajbir.
The property dealer, who took the weapon from Rajbir three days prior to the murder, might have planned his killing during that period, he said, without giving details as to how the revolver had reached the slain ACP.
The accused had taken the revolver from Rajbir on the pretext that he needed the weapon for his protection as he was going to collect a huge amount of money he had lent to someone in Sirsa, Lal said.
He said the Hisar ASP had claimed in an FIR lodged on July 21, 2007, in Bhiwani that he had lost his service revolver (no. A-1031) while chasing a criminal in Dadri on the same day.
The revolver was manufactured in 1991 and issued to the Haryana police in 1993, said Lal. "Someone had erased the gun's original number (A-1031) from the barrel and the butt and embossed a fake number (E-5286) on it to hoodwink the authorities,” the top Gurgaon police officer claimed.
— PTI
