LUCKNOW: Businesman Amanpreet shot dead outside his shop in Alambagh was peppered with seven bullets, said police which booked Raju Sardar aka Kalia, on Thursday for the murder. Amanpreet was shot by three men outside his shop in Chandernagar on Wednesday night. Police claimed that the murder was a fallout of a Rs 20 lakh monetary dispute.ASP (East) Sarvesh Mishra said that victim’s father Paramjeet Singh named Raju Sardar aka Kalia as accused in his complaint. “Babu and Sagar, who work at Amanpreet’s shop, had seen Kalia aiming a pistol at Amanpreet and opening fire,” said ASP.Sagar had spotted Kalia lurking near the shop in the morning and then around 6 pm. Initial probe revealed that Raju Sardar is a liquor smuggler who also extorts money. A crime branch official disclosed that the location of Kalia’s phone was found in Alambagh around 9.38pm. “Kalia’s phone got switched off minutes after he allegedly killed Amanpreet,” he said. On Thursday, police recovered a CCTV footage in which a white scooty is seen speeding around 10.04pm. “It suggests that some persons were standing near the crime scene and fled after the incident,” he said. A senior official said that one Jugnu Walia is also under scanner as he had attacked Amanpreet in 2015.Police officials also claimed that one Pali, a resident of Gurunanak Nagar, had taken Rs 15 lakh on interest from the deceased but was neither paying the interest nor had paid the principal. “Amanpreet had taken away Pali’s SUV on January 5,” said police. On Thursday, Amanpreet’s family blocked Lucknow-Kanpur road demanding arrest of Kalia.

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