A 30-year-old man was shot dead outside the Rohini court premises on Monday afternoon. The chilling day light murder was captured by CCTV cameras which showed four men, in a Honda City car, intercepted the man, identified as Ravi Bhardwaj while he was standing outside a road side eatery shop near Rohini court.
Atleast 25 rounds were fired at Ravi as his killers ensured that he was killed on the spot. It has been learnt that Ravi had come to the Rohini Court along with his friend to meet a lawyer.
Narrating the sequence of events, a senior officer said, “Bhardwaj came out from court with his friend and went to take food items from a shop in the Rohini Sector 22 area. While he was waiting for the food to get packed, four unknown attackers in a Honda City car stopped near him and started firing indiscriminately at him.”
“The attackers’ ceased firing after being satisfied Ravi was dead. They also fired into the air to deter the onlookers before escaping from the spot.
Bhardwaj’s friend informed the police and he was taken to nearby Ambedkar hospital where doctors declared him dead.
“On the statement of his friend, a case of murder has been registered against a gangster, Gogi and three unknown persons at the Prashant Vihar police station. The entire crime was recorded in CCTV footage and efforts are on to ascertain the identities of accused attackers,” he added.
Police suspect gang rivalry between Tilu gang and Gogi gang as the prime reason behind the cold blooded murder.
Rajneesh Gupta, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Rohini) said, “A call was received at around 1.30 pm about firing incident. It was found that one Ravi Bhardwaj (30) was shot by three to four assailants while he was taking food at a Chole Bhature shop. When taken to the hospital he was declared brought dead. Investigation is on.”
“Prima facie it appears to be a possible case of ongoing gang-war between two active gangs ‘Tillu gang and Gogi gang’ over some previous animosity in west Delhi. Bhardwaj had good contact with Tillu gang. His friend, in his complaint, named Jitender alias Gogi of being involved in the murder him with his three other accomplices,” added a senior officer.