Dharmi murder: Kin allege cops protecting accused due to ‘political pressure’

  • | Wednesday | 9th January, 2019

We are verifying the exact role of these persons,” a police officer said. The two parties had come to blows on the road.It has come to fore that Vivek is related to Randeep Bhati’s deceased elder brother Naresh Bhati while police is also probing the role of a Faridabad-based criminal who is related to Randeep Bhati.“Some people based outside Gautam Budh Nagar are also involved. Greater Noida: With the names of Randeep Bhati gang members surfacing in the murder case of Dharmendra alias Dharmi , against whom several cases were pending, the family of the victim on Tuesday accused the police of going slow in the case due to “political pressure.”The family members, who protested at Dadri police station on Tuesday, alleged that the accused were getting protection from police owing to their alleged relationship with a local BJP MLA.Questioning the arrangements in Basti jail, where gangster Randeep Bhati has been lodged, Dharmi’s kin sought to know how the former could make phone calls to Dharmi over the phone on the day of the incident.While Dharmi – who had about a dozen cases lodged against him including a murder — earlier had links with Randeep Bhati gang, he had distanced himself from the latter for quite some time as he ventured into politics to get political protection.Police sources told TOI that the trigger for the killing was a road rage incident with three youths — Vivek Singh, Paikar Singh and Gyanendra Singh – all residents of Sunpura village in Ecotech III police station area, who got into a physical fight with Dharmi and his accomplices Sunil Baisla and two others around 6 pm on Friday.

Greater Noida: With the names of Randeep Bhati gang members surfacing in the murder case of Dharmendra alias Dharmi , against whom several cases were pending, the family of the victim on Tuesday accused the police of going slow in the case due to “political pressure.”The family members, who protested at Dadri police station on Tuesday, alleged that the accused were getting protection from police owing to their alleged relationship with a local BJP MLA.Questioning the arrangements in Basti jail, where gangster Randeep Bhati has been lodged, Dharmi’s kin sought to know how the former could make phone calls to Dharmi over the phone on the day of the incident.While Dharmi – who had about a dozen cases lodged against him including a murder — earlier had links with Randeep Bhati gang, he had distanced himself from the latter for quite some time as he ventured into politics to get political protection.Police sources told TOI that the trigger for the killing was a road rage incident with three youths — Vivek Singh, Paikar Singh and Gyanendra Singh – all residents of Sunpura village in Ecotech III police station area, who got into a physical fight with Dharmi and his accomplices Sunil Baisla and two others around 6 pm on Friday. The two parties had come to blows on the road.It has come to fore that Vivek is related to Randeep Bhati’s deceased elder brother Naresh Bhati while police is also probing the role of a Faridabad-based criminal who is related to Randeep Bhati.“Some people based outside Gautam Budh Nagar are also involved. We are verifying the exact role of these persons,” a police officer said.

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