Heading home from a morning walk, Delhi businessman gunned down by men on bike

The police identified the deceased as Sunil Jain, who ran a utensils business at Krishna Nagar in Shahdara. He was a pillion rider on a scooter driven by his friend Sumit and was returning home around 8 am, when the assailants attacked him on 60 Feet Road near Swarn Cinema.

Businessman Sunil Jain

Shahdara DCP Prashanth Gautam said, “Sunil Jain was returning after his walk at Yamuna Sports Complex when he was shot.” An officer said Sumit has a case lodged against him at Gandhinagar police station. “He was booked under the gambling Act. He is being interrogated about the incident,” the officer added.
A morning walk at the sports complex with 15 to 20 friends, followed by tea at ‘Sonu Monu stall’ and feeding the birds, before heading back home – this has been Sunil’s morning routine for the past one decade. On Saturday morning, it came to an abrupt end.

He was on way home with Sumit when 300 m away from his shop, two-bike borne assailants stopped their scooter. “They asked his name, and then approached to shoot him. Sunil offered them whatever they wanted, but they fired five rounds at him and then fled,” an officer said.

Sitaram, a tailor who runs a shop on the side of the road where Sunil was shot, said he heard the shots while on way to work. “I left my house around 8 am… Midway, I heard sound of firing, one after another. By the time I reached the spot, Sunil was lying on the ground surrounded by pedestrians.”

The first to respond were Sunil’s morning walk mates. “Sumit called us to say that someone has shot Sunil. We reached the spot and informed his wife,” said Raja Jain, who deals in parts of electric scooty. He was with Sunil at Yamuna Sports Complex in the morning.

At the Subzi Mandi mortuary, waiting for the postmortem report of his father-in-law, Ekansh Jain said Sunil having any dispute with anyone is highly unlikely.

“My mother-in-law called to say that something has happened to papa. When I reached the spot, I got to know that he was shot… He would take the blame during any argument just to end it. From businessmen to relatives, he was there for everyone in the community,” said Ekansh, who is married to Sunil’s daughter Shikha.
Sunil, a second generation businessman, had been plying his trade in Krishna Nagar for the last 20 years. His father, Sukhmal Chand, had started the business at Gandhi Nagar in 1970s. “He was 15 or 16 years old when he started coming to the shop. He has studied till Class 10. He then moved to Krishna Nagar, as he sensed more opportunity there,” said Sanjeev Jain, Sunil’s cousin. He is also a part of the group with whom Sunil went to the sports complex.

Sunil’s hunch proved right. In the past decade, his business expanded leaps and bounds, making him one of the most well-known names in the Jain business community of the area. “Everyone in the area knew Sunil sahab. His shop provides utensils across Delhi-NCR and even to other states,” said Deepak Manocha, an electronics trader who has a shop near Sunil’s ‘Sanjay Bartan Bhandaar’.