'Gurgaon ACP took Rs 5 crore to kill Sandeep Gadoli in cold blood'

Was gangster Sandeep Gadolis death not a real police encounter but the result of Gurgaons gang wars following him to Mumbai Clearly his family thinks so mdash alleging that he was killed in a fake encounter at the behest of a rival mobster they have moved the Bombay High Court seeking an FIR against the Gurgaon cops involved in the shootout They have even named an ACP who they claim took Rs 5 crore to end Sandeeps lifeAlso read Andheri shootout Doctors say Gurgaon cops injuries not from bullet woundsSandeeprsquos sisters had earlier alleged that a Gurgaon officer had vowed to shoot him dead PicBipin KokateTheir petition will be heard on Monday by the HC bench comprising Justices Ranjit More and V L Achaliya In the application Sandeeps brother Kuldeep Singh states that a fake encounter was staged to kill the gangster after the Gurgaon police were given supari by Gurgaon politician and rival don Binder GujjarGangsterturnedmunicipal councillor Binder is presently lodged in prison for a property dealers murder For quite some time the Gujjar and Gadoli gangs have been locked in bloody rivalry which blew up in October after Binders driver was allegedly shot dead by Sandeeps men leading to a retaliatory killing of his accomplice After this the Gurgaon police launched an investigation into the alleged corrupt nexus between officers and the underworldldquoBinder who was once a friend of Sandeeps turned into his rival as both of them were into land developing in Gurgaon Binder was making efforts to eliminate Sandeep while he himself is in jail so nobody would suspect himrdquo said KuldeepSandeeps brother Kuldeep in his petition goes as far as to say it was Assistant Commissioner of Police Gurgaon Rajesh Gujjar who took R5 crore from Binder to kill Sandeep in a staged encounterldquoThe injury marks on my brothers body clearly point towards a murder in cold blood not an encounter There are swellings on his neck that show that he was first caught and then fired at Also there is one bullet injury in his back and two on his abdomen bullet injuries in opposite directions are not possible in an encounterrdquo said KuldeepIn an earlier frontpage report by midday In cold blood February 10 the three forensic experts from JJ Hospital who conducted Sandeeps postmortem said two bullets had entered his abdomen mdash on the left and right mdash and the third entered through his left shoulder and came out from the left chest anterior sideThe petition also claims that the Gurgaon police destroyed CCTV footage at the hotel to ensure no evidence was left behind The document further adds that the family had been threatened by the cops in the past and CCTV footage had been destroyed then as well However the family provided the court with a mobile phone clip of the incident which they claim shows Gurgaon Police PSI Praduman who was also part of the encounter team enter Sandeeps home AK47 in hand and threaten the whole familyThe application finally concludes that the Gurgaon police did not take any help from Mumbai Police mdash particularly the MIDC police in whose jurisdiction the hotel falls mdash as they had already decided to kill Sandeep and not catch him alive They said the Gurgaon cops received their information about the gangsters whereabouts from the Facebook page of Divya Pahuja the Indian woman who was travelling with Sandeep She was in his room at the time of the shooting and is now prime witness The family also stated Sandeeps mother Murti Devi had already approached the Haryana government for help to investigate the shootout They are currently stationed in Mumbai and will be attending the hearing on MondayldquoWe want an FIR of murder and criminal conspiracy against Crime Branch PSI Praduman Paramjeet Singh Vikram Singh ACP Rajesh Gujjar mdash all attached with Gurgaon Police We are also demanding a judicial inquiry and forensic opinion on the Sandeeps body to know how exactly he was killedrdquo said the familys advocate Tanveer Nizam