Seven nabbed for killing Najafgarh youths

NEW DELHI/CHANDIGARH: The murder of four Najafgarh youths was the fallout of a longstanding war between the gangs of Naveen Khati and Ravinder Bholu, police said. The murders which, many feared, would trigger further bloodletting, were solved jointly by Delhi and Haryana police on Monday.
While Haryana police rounded up six people involved in the murder, Delhi Police’s special cell has caught Bholu’s Man Friday, Rajesh alias Mogli, who’s the mastermind.Special commissioner of police (cell) S N Shrivastava said it is Mogli who had stuffed the bodies of the four youths—Manish, Sudhir, Sandeep and Deepak—in the Toyota Etios after killing them at Bholu’s office and then set the car on fire. Bholu works as a property dealer.
The six people arrested by Haryana police have been identified as Rahul, Deepak, Aakash, Mukesh, Rohit and Rohit’s mother Krishna Devi. They all belong to Mitraon and Dariyapur villages in Najafgarh.
Mogli has disclosed that Bholu harboured a grudge against Khati who had urinated in his mouth when both were in Tihar Jail. When Bholu got out of jail, Khati’s men had shot at him, injuring him seriously. One of the four deceased, Deepak, was allegedly involved in the attack on Bholu. The prime target, though, was Manish as he was Khati’s brother, police said.
Both groups—now archrivals—worked for Anoop’s gang but again went their own separate ways after his death. Bholu and Mogli had hatched the murders to avenge the attacks on him by the Khati gangsters.
According to the police, Manish, Sudhir, Sandeep and Deepak were returning home after celebrating new year. “The accused stopped them and asked them to join their party. They offered them liquor, got them drunk and then shot them dead inside Bholu’s office,” Kaptan Singh, deputy superintendent of police, Bahadurgarh, said. “After killing them, the accused put the four bodies in the same Toyota Etios in which they were returning home. They set the car on fire after pouring petrol over it,” he said. The deceased’s kin had earlier told police that the killings may have been the result of gang rivalry.
A local court has sent the arrested woman to judicial custody while the others are in police custody. Police said more arrests including Bholu’s are in offing.