Who murdered 3 in NH-8 fuel station? SIT yet to track killers

GURGAON: A year after the stabbing of three employees of a petrol pump on the Delhi-Jaipur highway, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) formed to probe the case are yet to identify or arrest any of the accused.
Around 2.10am on February 28, three men, including the manager, were brutally hacked to death while they were sleeping at the premises of the petrol pump located off the highway in Sector 31, Gurgaon.
Cops had said the attack was planned as the assailants cut off power to the gas station, shutting down all 14 CCTV cameras there. Theft was ruled out as the attackers did not take Rs 10 lakh cash that was lying in a safe at the station.
When asked about progress in the case, ACP (crime) Preet Pal Sangwan said on Monday that the SIT and four other police teams were working round-the-clock and had found several clues indicating personal rivalry.
“Yes, it is still a blind murder case, but our teams have collected enough evidence and police will surely crack the case soon,” Sangwan said.
The victims were manager Pushpender (26), pump operator Bhupender (22), staffer Naresh Kumar (23). All three belonged to Bulandshahr, UP. “So far, investigation has suggested that personal enmity could be the motive for the crime,” the ACP added.
According to cops, after switching off the power, the accused went on a stabbing spree, hacking the victims to death. Severely injured at the time, Naresh Kumar ran to an adjacent petrol pump for help and collapsed there. He died at the spot.
Police were alerted by an employee of the other station. A postmortem report said all the victims were stabbed around 10-12 times and were likely to have died after bleeding out within minutes.
After the incident, senior police officials, forensic reams, crime branch and cops from several stations had reached the site of the crime. An FIR was subsequently registered at the Sector 40 police station against unidentified accused under sections 302 (murder) and 34 (common intention) of the IPC.