NEW DELHI: Family members of gangster
Rajesh Bharti, who was killed in an encounter with police on Saturday, have refused to accept his body saying they had
disowned him a few years ago. The body is lying in the
mortuary.
Bharti is believed to have killed his father in the early 90s at the age of 11, while his mother was murdered by his uncle. When cops contacted his cousins to take the body, they refused. A police team is now trying to contact prominent people of his
village in Jind district of
Haryana to perform his last rites.
Senior police officers said that the autopsy of the four criminals who were killed on Saturday will be conducted by a medical board on Monday in front of a magistrate. Haryana’s CID also visited the mortuary on Sunday. The fifth gangster, Kapil, is stable and undergoing treatment at AIIMS. His village’s sarpanch, Vedpal, visited the hospital on Sunday.
More than 30 people from Sanjeet Balara alias Vidrohi’s Bahu Akbarpur village in Rohtak came to the mortuary at AIIMS Trauma Center on Sunday evening to identify the body. Vidrohi’s cousin, Sahil Chhikara, said that his brother left home around three years ago and had refused to return home despite repeated pleas from the family. “His mother and sisters still don’t know that he has been killed,” he added.
Vidrohi’s elder brother, who works in railways, said that he got involved in crime after coming in contact with
gangster Sandeep Gadoli, who was killed in an encounter by Haryana Police in Mumbai. His brother and friends had alleged foul play claiming that the cops took CCTV footage from the shootout spot.
The family of Viresh Rana alias Bhiku were shocked to see his name in the list of people killed in the shootout. His uncle, Satbeer Dabas said Rana had been living at his wife’s house near Bahadurgarh for the past two years.
“He had said that he was working as a driver for a businessman and didn’t have any criminal links. He had done BA and even worked for four years at Delhi airport in the cargo department. His death should be investigated,” Dabas said.
