Three motorcycle-borne men gunned down a 32-year-old man outside his tea shop in South Delhi’s Chhatarpur late on Sunday night.
The victim Ravi has some robbery cases registered against him and police suspect the murder to be the fallout of personal rivalry. The police are also probing whether Ravi was killed on suspicion of passing on information about some criminals to the police.
Ravi and his wife Pooja run a tea stall in front of a school near Chhattarpur Temple. They were winding up their shop around 11 p.m. on Sunday when the murder took place.
Pooja, who witnessed her husband’s murder, told the police that the three assailants had arrived on a motorcycle. Two of them got off the vehicle and pulled out pistols while the biker waited on the motorcycle.
“Before Pooja could alert her husband, the killers had fired several shots at him. Hearing the sound of gunshots, locals rushed to the spot, but the assailants had managed to escape by then,” said a police officer.
The victim was rushed to a hospital in Vasant Kunj where he succumbed to his injuries. Ravi had suffered five bullet injuries in his head and chest. Pooja later told police that she knew the assailants. She has shared details of their identities and police are conducting raids to nab the suspects. The woman has also alleged that these men had threatened her husband with death in the past too. Police have abstained from linking the murder to a gang war. They have cited Pooja’s allegations that Ravi was assaulted by one of the suspects around five months ago because of which he suffered rib injuries and was undergoing treatment. A murder case has been registered at the Mehrauli police station and a probe is on. Police are also scanning CCTV camera footage near the murder spot to get more details of the incident.
