Two more Gurgaon cops held in Gadoli fake encounter case

A senior IPS officer said, “We arrested Vikram Singh and Jitendra Yadav, the two constables who were part of the five-member team that killed Gadoli, on Tuesday afternoon. They were brought to Mumbai by evening. In the CCTV footage of the hotel, Jitendra Yadav is seen carrying a weapon. We will produce them before the local court on Wednesday to seek their custody,” he added.

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“They are not cooperating with the probe at all,” the source said, adding, “We would want to bring the duo face to face with Pradhuman and interrogate them together.”

Gadoli, a Gurgaon-based gangster, was shot dead by inside Hotel Airport Metro, close to the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, on February 7.

While the Gurgaon police team claimed they had fired in self-defence, the SIT formed by the Mumbai police concluded that the encounter was fake, and filed an FIR against eight people, including five policemen from Gurgaon.

Family members of Gadoli had alleged that a rival gangster in Haryana had paid the Gurgaon Police to kill Gadoli.

The police are still on the lookout for two constables and three civilians, including Divya Pahuja, who was allegedly in the hotel room with Gadoli when he was killed, her mother Sonia Pahuja, and one Manoj Gujjar in connection with the case.

The SIT is also recording the statement of Gurgaon Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Rajesh Kumar, to whom the arrested accused reported.

An officer said, “The policemen have not been that cooperative so far. We hope to arrest the private persons in the case soon. Their interrogation will help us get more details, such as at whose behest the conspiracy to kill Gadoli was hatched.”

Sudesh Kataria, Gadoli’s sister, said, “There are many more persons who should be arrested in the case.” She alleged that the conspiracy had been hatched at Bhondsi jail in Haryana where Binder Gujjar — a rival gangster — planned the entire thing.

“Some of the arrested policemen and a senior officer visited Gujjar in Bhondsi prison and decided how the plan was to be executed,” she alleged.