Man shot dead on MG Road in front of wife, brother

Police said the brothers, hailing from Muzzafarpur in Bihar, were regular visitors to a pub in Sahara Mall on M G Road.
On Wednesday, around 11.30 pm, Reshma and the woman acquaintance visited this pub. “Shakeel’s wife Reshma works at the club and the family lived in Khajoori Khas in Delhi,” a police officer said.

According to the FIR, the women came out of the mall around 1.30 am. Shakeel and his brother were waiting for them. “Instead of taking an auto-rickshaw to IFFCO Chowk Metro station, they started walking. A woman PCR personnel saw them and offered to drop them. The PCR van dropped them at the petrol pump near IFFCO Chowk,” ACP (East) Dalbir Singh said.

A few metres ahead, an unidentified man drove past them, stopped the car, got out and began screaming at Shakeel, police said.
“It fast turned into a heated argument. The motorist pulled out a pistol and shot Shakeel,” a senior police officer said.

Shakeel’s brother and the two women took the help of another motorist to rush Shakeel to Max hospital, where he was declared dead on arrival.

“Shakeel died on the spot as the bullet pierced his heart. The bullet was retrieved from the posterior part of the chest wall,” Dr Deepak Mathur, who conducted the post-mortem examination of the body, said.

“A case under IPC Section 302, and Sections 25, 54, 59 of the Arms Act has been registered at the Sector 29 police station against an unidentified assailant. Further probe is underway,” Singh said.

Police suspect that the assailant was known to Shakeel and that the murder was the result of a monetary dispute.

Narrating the sequence of events, Reshma said, “I was walking ahead of Shakeel and his brother. Shakeel had told me the previous day that he had to collect a payment Rs 3,000 from an acquaintance. In the night when he met me, he said he had not got the payment and he was upset.

A man in a dark black jacket shot my husband. I have not seen him before and neither had my husband mentioned anything about such a person to me. After shooting Shakeel, the man got into a black car and fled.”