Meerut Shootout: Gangster brothers killed aide to frame rival

  • | Thursday | 20th September, 2018

Meerut: In a sensational twist in the Meerut shootout case, police on Thursday said that two brothers, Jogendra Kumar and Johnny, both gangsters who are accused in several murder cases, planned an attack at their house and got their aide Raja killed. "Jogendra and his brother Johnny had hatched the conspiracy to take down their own aide in a shootout and frame Sonu in the case. This only emboldened our suspicion," a crime branch sleuth said.The accused cracked during intense interrogation and spilled the beans. Jogendra was the prime witness in the case which has reached the trial stage. "The postmortem report had claimed blackening near the wounds suggesting a gunshot from close range.

Meerut: In a sensational twist in the Meerut shootout case, police on Thursday said that two brothers, Jogendra Kumar and Johnny, both gangsters who are accused in several murder cases, planned an attack at their house and got their aide Raja killed. According to cops, the conspiracy was hatched to frame Sonu Naagar, the gangster who killed Jogendra and Johnny’s parents.TOI had earlier reported that over a dozen gunmen attacked Jogendra’s house in Alipur Morna village on the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday in a bid to kill him as he is the prime witness in the murder of his parents.Police have now arrested Jogendra Kumar and Johnny, their four aides and Jogendra’s wife Shivani.Jogendra is already an accused in the murder case of Sonu’s father Dharam Singh, who was killed in 2010, the year which marked the beginning of rivalry between the two sides.According to the police, Sonu and his aides, to avenge the murder of Dharam Singh, had killed Jogendra's parents last year. Jogendra was the prime witness in the case which has reached the trial stage."Jogendra and his brother Johnny had hatched the conspiracy to take down their own aide in a shootout and frame Sonu in the case. This was done to strengthen the evidence against Sonu, who already has a bounty of Rs 50,000 on his head," Rajesh Kumar, Meerut superintendent of police (rural), said.The investigators claimed that there were several aberrations in the initial statements of the witnesses. "The postmortem report had claimed blackening near the wounds suggesting a gunshot from close range. This only emboldened our suspicion," a crime branch sleuth said.The accused cracked during intense interrogation and spilled the beans.

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