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Contract killer’s arrest: Delhi police grills gangster; yet to authenticate claims

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By Our Correspondent Updated: May 19, 2019 11:30 pm

Our Correspondent
New Delhi, May 19 (EMN): Delhi police continues to remain tight-lipped about the revelations made by arrested gangster Vijay Parmana, who had sensationally claimed that he was hired to kill a high profile politician from Nagaland after the Lok Sabha elections.

Sources in Delhi police told Eastern Mirror on Sunday that the matter is under investigation and going public with the revelations now would hamper its ongoing investigation.

Considering the high profile nature of the case, investigators will come out with the details of the finding only when every loose end has been tied, according to the police.

It has been learned that, apart from Delhi police officials, a team from the Intelligence Bureau has also interrogated the notorious criminal. Reportedly, the IB officials questioned Vijay on his links with Nagaland and the identity of the politicians—the target as well as the one who had hired Vijay to execute the hit job.

A source claimed that Vijay has revealed both the names to the IB team.

Meanwhile, a team of police officers from Nagaland is also expected to arrive at the capital. Delhi police, if asked for, is not averse to providing the team a chance at grilling Vijay.

Few factors are forcing the investigators to exercise more caution than usual before sharing the details related to the case. They are not ready to accept Vijay’s confession at face value; they have found few discrepancies in his statement.

In his confession, Vijay claimed to have travelled to Nagaland with a couple of associates to finalise the deal of killing a politician from the state after the elections. But the investigators are questioning was it really possible for a noted criminal like Vijay to travel all the way from Haryana to Nagaland escaping the eyes of the law enforcers, especially at a time when the entire country was on high alert due to the general elections.

Here some of the investigators suspect that the actual meeting and transactions took place ‘somewhere near Delhi border.’ The assassination was to be executed in Delhi, it was reported. Vijay’s claim to have travelled to Nagaland might be to mislead the police, they suspect.

Other doubts remain: if they were paid such a hefty amount, why should they be asked to kill the politician after elections? Whether more money has been promised? According to police, Vijay is yet to reveal anything on those aspects.

They were also of the view that contract killings in India are more or less limited to the western region, especially in Mumbai, where business rivalry prompts such killings. But it’s a rarity in the political circle. Besides, if one is paying such a big amount to eliminate his political rival, he could have contacted ‘far more equipped’ hitmen/contract killers.

According to Delhi police, those were some of the loopholes in Vijay’s statement they were trying to plug at the outset. Vijay, they reminded, is a hardened criminal and very much aware about what to say or not to say before the police.

Thus, the investigating team is looking for hard evidences to nail Vijay against whom many cases of murder are pending. Once the veracity of Vijay’s claim is established, Delhi police may summon the Nagaland politician for interrogation.

NPCC wants security cover for top political leaders

Dimapur, May 19 (EMN): The Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee expressed serious concern at the “shocking development especially the condition to kill after the ongoing Lok Sabha elections.”

In a statement issued on Sunday, it urged the government of Nagaland to review security cover of top political leaders irrespective of party affiliations. “During the past few years, security cover for majority of opposition party leaders have either been scaled down or withdrawn in the name of austerity and low threat perceptions. In such a scenario, many political party leaders are left vulnerable to attacks from criminal elements.”

 

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By Our Correspondent Updated: May 19, 2019 11:30:34 pm
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