NEW DELHI: A 30-year-old policeman patrolling on a motorbike died after a automotive pushed by a person he had a tiff with a couple of minutes in the past chased, hit and dragged him for over 30 ft earlier than crushing him towards a stationary automobile in west Delhi’s Nangloi at 2.15am on Sunday. The 2 occupants of the automotive have been inebriated and “intentionally” mowed down Constable Sandeep Malik (30) after he had allegedly stopped them from consuming contained in the carm police claimed.An FIR of murder was registered towards the 2 and certainly one of them, Rajnish, was arrested. The automotive was seized, and a liquor bottle and packets of chips have been present in it.
Nonetheless, the motive cited by police – that they have been enraged after Sandeep objected to their consuming – would not tally with the content material of the preliminary diary entry made by native police. The entry mentions the involvement of a liquor provider named Jangra within the case and that he was pressuring the cop to “get work finished”.
Police refuted a “mafia angle”, however did not clarify the contents of the diary. It mentioned the assault was deliberate, and one of many suspects has a property rental enterprise and the household of the opposite a common retailer. The probe could also be handed over to crime department, sources say. The incident happened round 2.15am. at Veena Enclave in Nangloi. Constable Sandeep was on his routine patrol. On obligation however wearing civilian garments as a consequence of elevated instances of housebreaking within the space, Sandeep was touring in the direction of the railways highway from Nangloi Police Station at 2am.
He stopped after recognizing a suspiciously parked automotive within the railway parking zone and confronted the occupants. “He allegedly objected to 2 males consuming of their automotive within the railway yard parking zone. The constable instructed the duo to instantly go away for his or her residence from there. The suspects named Dharmender and Rajnish vehemently refused. An altercation ensued,” mentioned a senior cop.
Constable Sandeep admonished him and threatened to provoke authorized motion towards him at his residence, compelling him to vacate the premises. Dharmendra was incensed by this incident. The accused started driving forward within the automotive, and the constable pursued him on a motorbike. Upon exiting the world, the accused halted outdoors the road of Veena Enclave and awaited Constable Sandeep’s arrival. The residence of the accused is located at far from this location.
The homicide was captured on CCTV digital camera and the footage confirms that the cop was mowed down with none provocation.
At 2.15am, the automotive reached the road’s exterior, reversed barely and stopped on the facet. At 2.16am, when Constable Sandeep approached on a motorbike and began heading in the direction of the accused’s home, the accused tailed him and swiftly ran over him, the footage reveals. Upon influence, Sandeep launched the motorbike’s deal with, his legs have been thrust into the air, and he collapsed onto the bike. Subsequently, when the Wagon R automotive collided with one other automobile, the cop was sandwiched between the suspects’ automotive and one other automobile.
Regardless of being rushed to Sonia Hospital and later transferred to Balaji Hospital in Paschim Vihar, he succumbed to his accidents. His physique was handed over to the household after the post-mortem.
The case, nonetheless, turned even murkier after the content material of the police diary entry surfaced on Sunday midday. Although cops have been fast to refute a ‘mafia angle’ behind the incident, their very own diary entry that surfaced on Sunday midday appeared to relate a unique story.
“Gadi quantity DL 1C AA 76** ne hit kiya hai.. Homicide hai..,” reads the entry lodged by native police. The diary entry, accessed by TOI, talks a few man named Jangra, a liquor provider, being concerned. “The automotive proprietor goes by the surname Jangra..He has a liquor enterprise… Was pressuring to get work finished,” reads the cryptic entry.
The diary entry additionally talks about one other cop, Khushi Ram from Ranhola police station being on the spot moreover two companions on the bike.
On liquor mafia, police claimed: “It’s clarified that to date no mafia angle has come into mild. A homicide case has been registered underneath part 103 of the BNS.”
The cops did not touch upon the diary entry. An officer mentioned that they’d have the ability to touch upon this solely after the second suspect, who can also be the prime accused, is interrogated and his model corroborated.
