JAIPUR: Bikaner police have arrested two persons for the murder of an incense trader in Nayashaher, which had compelled senior officials of Special Operations Group (SOG) to get involved in the investigation.
The 40-year-old Griraj Aggarwal was shot dead on Friday evening when he was returning home from work.
The persons arrested in the case were identified as 23-year-old Santosh Vishnoi, who allegedly hatched the plan and 38-year-old Gopal Soni who did the recce. Prahlad Singh, SP, Bikaner told TOI, “We had constituted a team to look into the case and have arrested two persons while the search is on for few others. We are confident that they also will be in our custody soon.” Meanwhile, insiders told TOI that the murder was actually a case of mistaken identity and an official on condition of anonymity said, “The accused had told his accomplices that if they kill a particular person, they would get a lot of cash from the bag that he would be carrying but the co-accused shot the wrong man. The deal between the accused was that the one who planned it would get 50% of the total loot while the remaining two would get the rest of it. The bag which they snatched from Aggarwal contained nothing of value.”
The fatal shooting in Nayashaher was followed by outrage from the locals who demanded prompt arrest of the accused. Local leaders had also staged a protest demanding better law and order situation in the district. The victim’s family had demanded compensation as well as government job for one member. After visiting Bikaner, ADG SOG and ATS, Ashok Rathore has given a set of guidelines to the district SP and in this particular case, he has advised that directional patrolling should be done along with enhanced checking by cops. The guidelines also say that crimes by history-sheeters need to be prevented along with the fact that in most cases, the accused are in their early 20s, so cops should conduct a door-to-door survey and prepare a record of the same.
Cops claimed that in two of the cases of firings in the district, there were connections to IPL betting as the matches are underway currently.