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New Delhi: Delhi Police yesterday claimed to have solved the murder of Delhi businessman Arun Gupta and arrested four men, including his brother-in-law Dinesh Mittal, though several questions remain unanswered.
Mittal, 46, had in January hired contract killers from Bulandshahar, Uttar Pradesh, for Rs1 million (Dh92,150) to eliminate his sister Sadhna and brother-in-law Gupta, Delhi Police Commissioner Y.S. Dadwal said.
"Dinesh feared that Sadhna and her husband Arun Gupta, who inherited the Mittal Gardens from his late father, would sell it and fraudulently seize other family properties," Dadwal said.
"Through his employee Mohammad Haroon Mittal hired contract killers to eliminate both of them."
Haroon contracted Mohammad Parvez, a driver by profession and involved in murder and attempt-to-murder cases in Ghaziabad, and his accomplice Afroz alias Pahelwan for Rs1 million.
The police said Haroon arranged Dinesh's meeting with the two in January and they were given photographs of Gupta and his wife. An advance payment of Rs500,000 (Dh46,075) was also made.
The two further outsourced the contract killing to Ible Hassan and paid him Rs200,000 (Dh18,430) to kill Gupta within two days. But Hassan was arrested for some other crime.
Motorcycles
Parvez now contracted the execution job to his brother-in-law Mohammad Junaid. On April 6, Junaid and his two accomplices Shakeel and Abu Zar - all residents of Bulandshahar - arrived in Delhi on two motorcycles along with weapons.
The next day all four arrived outside Gupta's house and killed him. Junaid, Shakeel and Zar fled to Uttar Pradesh after collecting the contract money.
Dadwal said Dinesh, Parvez, Haroon and Junaid were arrested and search was on to nab others.
"Dinesh in his interrogation confessed that his father, who expired last year, had properties worth million of rupees, including the Mittal Gardens in Andheria Mod, properties in Dwarka, Jaitpur, Kalkaji, Tughlakabad, DLF Sushant Lok, Gurgaon and Faridabad," Dadwal told reporters.
"But he decided to eliminate the Guptas after he got suspicious that his brother-in-law was trying to sell the Mittal Gardens. He also came to know that the Guptas were fraudulently trying to grab other properties and savings worth Rs105 million (Dh9,7 million," Dadwal said.
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