Cops solve murders’ mystery, but leave sting in probe tail

Two months after the sensational murder of four women of Jindal family — Urmila Jindal (82), her daughters Sangeeta Gupta (56), Nupur Jindal (48) and Anjali Jindal (38) — along with their security guard in East Delhi’s Mansorvar Park area on October 7, the Delhi Crime Branch on Wednesday arrested five persons, including the wife and a son of the guard.

 “The motive behind the murders was robbery. The plan was hatched by security guard Rakesh in connivance with his son Anuj and son-in-law Vikas. During sustained interrogation, Vikas confessed to his crime. Following which Rakesh’s wife Krishna, son Anuj, and three other accomplices, Sunny, Vicky and Deepak, were arrested. Rakesh was killed by his accomplices on the same day as they feared he may spill the beans,” said Alok Kumar, Joint Commissioner of Police, Crime.

However, contradicting the line of investigation taken by the Crime Branch, a senior officer of the Shahdara police station, which had conducted the investigation in the case earlier, told The Pioneer about the loopholes in the Crime Branch investigation. “The biggest question mark is on the reason given for Rakesh’s murder by his son-in-law. Second, confusion is about the whereabouts of the accused on the night of the crime as locations of the accused persons’ mobiles don’t match with their whereabouts,” he said, claiming that the Crime Branch has made the arrest in a hurry without foolproof evidence.

“The Crime Branch made the arrests without waiting for the fingerprints report.

The Crime Branch claimed to have arrested the men on the suspicion that they fled the crime scene. But we found in our investigation that after the PCR call was made that day, the son and the son-in-law of guard came to the crime scene on hearing about their Rakesh’s death,” he added.

However, the Crime Branch defended its investigation in the case. “The local police did not take the statement of the Jindal’s maid, Rani, seriously. She had informed the local police that she had seen relatives of Rakesh loitering near the MS Park residence. Moreover, they did not verify about the criminal record of Vikas and Anuj,” said the JCP.

Explaining about the sequence of events on the night of the murder, he said, “In August, guard Rakesh had gone to his village in Baghpat where he told his family members about the wealth of the Jindal family. Rakesh’s son and son-in-law Vikas roped in their friends, Neeraj, Deepak, another Vikas and Sunny. They did a recce on the evening of September 25. Vikas, Anuj and Sunny met Rakesh in Mansarovar Park area. On October 6, they all assembled at Loni, took two autorickshaws till Mansarovar Park. They reached the residence at 1 am.”

The JCP said, “After entering the house, they killed the four women, ransacked the house, and broke lockers and almirah. Anuj and Vikas thought that since Rakesh is a guard, he might spill the beans, so Vikas slit his throat and they left the premises.”

Then they walked to a nearby park near GTB hospital where they divided Rs 2 lakh cash and jewellery among themselves. By 5am, they left for the respective homes.”