Shooting spree in Delhi again: Car workshop, hypermarket targeted; men on bike suspects in both cases

In the first case, three unidentified men on a Splendor motorcycle fired multiple rounds at Raj Mandir Hypermarket at Guru Harkrishan Nagar in Paschim Vihar, at 2.23 pm, police said. Two hours later, shots were fired at a motor vehicle workshop in Najafgarh by three men on a bike. Police are looking into whether the suspects in both cases are the same men, said sources.

After the firing at the hypermarket, police found seven to eight empty cartridge casings and broken glass pieces from the doors of the shop. No one was injured in the incident, they added.

An officer said the hypermarket owner had recently received extortion calls from Sangwan (32), a notorious criminal with links to gangster Lawrence Bishnoi. Hailing from Najafgarh and believed to be operating from the United Kingdom, police said Sangwan is wanted in the February murder of INLD Haryana unit chief Nafe Singh Rathee. He is also wanted in 18 cases linked to crimes like murder, attempt to murder, extortion and robbery and under the Arms Act in Delhi, Haryana and Rajasthan, they said.

He was arrested in Rajasthan in 2016. In 2019, he was booked under the MCOCA by the Delhi Police Special Cell. In 2020, he fled to the UK after he got out of jail on parole.

Meanwhile, DCP (Dwarka)  Ankit Singh said the Chhawla police station received a call regarding the firing at the motor vehicle workshop at 4.14 pm.

“Three individuals on a motorcycle arrived at the workshop, owned by Joginder Singh (46), at Durga Park in Dinpur. While one of them waited on the bike outside, the other two — their faces covered with cloth — entered the workshop where two men were working on a car. They fired five rounds which hit a parked Alto,” DCP Singh said.

Outer Delhi witnessed incidents of shooting at two property dealers’ offices at Nangloi and Alipur on Monday. Three bike-borne men had opened fire in Nangloi around 1.30 pm, followed by a similar incident at Alipur at 3 pm. The Crime Branch had on Tuesday arrested two members of the infamous Jitender Gogi gang, including a minor, in both cases.
Additional CP (Crime Branch) Sanjay Bhatia said during questioning, the man, Akash Rathore, 18, revealed they were members of the Gogi gang and had carried out the shootings in Nangloi and Alipur as part of their extortion scheme.