Why did Greater Noida firm director shoot colleague in office cabin

GREATER NOIDA: A director of UP Telelinks, a Greater Noida company manufacturing wires and cables, allegedly shot a colleague dead during a meeting in his cabin on Thursday afternoon before killing himself with the same gun. Pradeep Aggarwal (55) killed co-director Naresh Gupta (60) while Rakesh Jain (59), another director who was at the meeting, is admitted in a private hospital with a head injury.
Police said preliminary investigation had revealed that the three directors were not on the same page over a recent Rs 17-crore transaction and the meeting had been called to apparently settle the issue. Jain said from his hospital bed that the company was incurring losses and Aggarwal got into a heated argument with Gupta over this. He then whipped out his licensed revolver from inside the drawer and fired at least five shots, one of which hit Gupta in the head.
Workers at Telelinks located off GT Road in Badalpur on the Greater Noida-Ghaziabad border — remained tight-lipped about the shooting but police quoted a few employees as saying that Aggarwal had called Gupta and Jain to his cabin around 2.30pm. The gunshots were heard a few minutes later.
DCP (central Noida) Harish Chander said Aggarwal’s licensed revolver had been recovered from his cabin along with five bullet shells. “He fired at least five shots. One bullet was still in the revolver. A bullet hit Naresh Gupta in the head and he died on the spot. He may have fired at Jain too but missed. He then shot himself in the head,” he said. Aggarwal lived with his family in east Delhi’s Yojna Vihar.
Both victims died on the spot, says doctor
According to Chander, around 10 workers who were in the office during the shooting rushed to Aggarwal’s room after hearing the gunshots and found the director lying face down on the floor, oozing blood. A few metres away lay Gupta, while Jain was in another corner. Jain was rushed to Anand Hospital, which is just opposite the Telelinks office.
Anand Hospital director Naresh Mittal said a doctor was sent to examine Aggarwal and Gupta. They had died on the spot. “Jain was brought to the hospital around 3pm. There was a deep gushing wound in the scalp. He is in the ICU,” Mittal said.
The doctor said it was possible Jain had been hit on the head with the butt of Aggarwal’s revolver. “He does not have any bullet injury. It seems he was hit on the head with a blunt object. He is out of danger, but will be kept under observation for at least 24 hours,” he said.