JAIPUR: A day after the gang war in which a notorious fugitive was among four who killed in indiscriminate firing allegedly by Sampat Nehra Gang, Churu police on Saturday arrested an assailant and detained another. Now police are trying to locate three other henchmen who are on the run.
According to police, the assailant identified as Sandeep Dhaka (19) was arrested by police. “He was part of the six-member team that visited Dhani Mauji and indulged into incriminate firing killing four persons including fugitive Pradeep Swami,” said Bikaner Range IG Prafful Kumar.
He added that another henchman identified as Bhagirath (32) has been taken into police custody. He is seriously injured and undergoing treatment at SMS Hospital. “He will officially be arrested after his discharge. Our team as guard took him in custody at the hospital in Jaipur,” he added.
Senior police officers said that nothing much can be commented until the interrogation of the two accused including one arrested and one detained.
Meanwhile, the deadlock over conducting of the post mortem of the four deceased was over on Saturday while a team of senior police officers and also of Special Operation Group (SOG) of Rajasthan police visited the village. Ashok Rathore, ADG, SOG and ATS also visited the crime spot where firing took place on Friday.
“Swami sustained 18 bullet wounds. Doctors removed three bullets from the body of another deceased Ishwar Singh. However, the autopsy of the fourth deceased was yet to be done since he was yet to be identified,” said a senior police officer of Hameerwas police station.
On Friday, four persons including a fugitive wanted in a murder case were killed in an alleged gang war at a Dhani Mauji hamlet under Hameerwas police station area in Churu district. Two other villagers got injured in the firing at the village.
Pradeep Swami was a police witness: Pradeep Swami was police witness in a case of Ajay Jaitpura murder case. Ajay was killed allegedly by Sampat Nehra Gang on January 17, 2018. Police had given security to Pradeep. But he escaped when his name emerged in a murder case in the month of January this year. Police had announced a reward of Rs 2000 on him. His murder was a big jolt for police investigating the Jaitpura murder case.