Gujjar’s brother shot, Gadoli kin booked

Gurgaon: The elder brother of jailed gangster Binder Gujjar, who is accused of plotting with police to get his arch rival Sandeep Gadoli killed earlier this year, bled to death after he was sprayed with bullets by a group of armed men in Gurgaon’s New Colony late on Monday.
Manish Gujjar (42) was headed towards one of the liquor shops he owned in his white Hyundai Creta when a car when a group of shooters stationed along the route fired at his car.Almost immediately, a car and an SUV tailing the Creta on Old Railway Road pulled up on either side and six men rained gunfire on it. Manish, who was in the passenger seat, was hit in the head, chest and stomach. His driver Sukhbir and Liyaqat Ali, an aide who was in the back seat, were also hit. Manish died before he could be taken to hospital. Sukhbir and Liyaqat are battling critical injuries at Medanta.
The finger of suspicion pointed at Gadoli’s family as Manish’s father alleged the attack was a retribution for the killing of the dreaded gangster earlier this year. Based on a complaint filed by Manish’s father Karan Singh, police named Gadoli’s brothers Brahmprakash and Kuldeep and sister Sudesh in the FIR as well as Kaushal, a gangster, and his two associates Manish and Amit Dagar. They were all charged under sections 302 (murder), 307 (attempt to murder), 120B (criminal conspiracy), 148 (rioting), 149 (unlawful assembly) of the IPC and sections of the Arms Act.
Manish alias Pappu operated a dozen liquor shops in in the city. He was the eldest of three Gujjar brothers, the youngest being Manoj, who is wanted by Mumbai police. Manoj is one of the accused named in the charge sheet filed by Mumbai police, which is investigating claims by Gadoli’s family that his encounter, on February 7 at Airport Metro hotel in the Maharashtra capital, had been staged by Gurgaon police. The Mumbai cops believe Manoj is key to unravelling the sequence of events that led to the killing of Gadoli.
The probe began after the family of Gadoli approached courts accusing Binder Gujjar, who is in Bhondsi jail, of striking a deal with the Gurgaon cops for a large sum of money to get his arch rival bumped off. Gurgaon police has denied these charges.
Deepak Mathur, the doctor who conducted Manish’s autopsy, said he had found more than seven bullet injuries. “Four of the bullets were lodged on his body. The rest left entry and exit marks,” he said. Police turned the cremation ground into a fortress as Binder Gujjar was brought from jail for his brother’s last rites.
Manish’s killing is the third death in gang wars in a month after Mahesh alias Attack was shot dead in a similar manner, allegedly by members of the Kaushal gang, outside his office near Jharsa Chowk on September 21. Attack was wanted in 21 cases of attempt to murder, extortion and snatching. On October 15, Vikram Sehrawat (20), suspected to be a shooter of gangster Rakesh Hayatpur, was found dead in Sector 37.
Sumit Kuhar, DCP (crime), who is investigating Manish’s murder, said, “We have recovered 15 bullet shells from the spot. Different kinds of illegal weapons were use in the crime.”