A 35-year-old gym owner was shot dead in full public view in South Delhi on Thursday night, in a shocking case of gang war in the capital. A CCTV camera captured the chilling moment when a shooter opened fire on a busy road in the upscale Greater Kailash-1 colony.
Rohit Godara, a close aide of Goldy Brar of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, has taken responsibility for the murder in a social media post. NDTV cannot confirm the authenticity of the post.
In the video exclusively accessed by NDTV, gym owner Nadir Shah, an Afghan-origin man who lived in Chittaranjan Park, is seen talking to another man next to a couple of parked cars.
At 10.40 pm, a man wearing a chequered shirt approaches the two men and begins firing. While one of the men ducks and runs away, the attacker keeps firing at Mr Shah.
The shooter hops onto a motorcycle parked a few metres away and escapes. He fired around six to eight times, the police said. Bullet projectiles and empty cartridges were found at the spot.
Mr Shah was rushed to Max Hospital, where he was declared dead.
"The attackers came on a two wheeler, fired on him and ran away. He was immediately rushed to the hospital by his friends but was declared brought dead," Deputy Commissioner of Police (south) Ankit Chauhan told news agency PTI.
According to the police, Mr Shah also owned a business in Dubai and has several criminal cases against him. Sources say he was a police informer who knew senior Delhi Police officers.
In a social media post, Rohit Godara said he ordered the killing of Mr Shah after his aide Samir Baba, who is in Tihar Jail, sent him a message that Mr Shah was obstructing their business deals. "If anyone else should dare to do the same, they will meet the same fate," the post read.
The Delhi Police's Special Cell has detained six people including two who were present when the shooting occurred. They also recovered a large cache of ammunitions
The six were engaged in acquiring guns and doing recces of the posh neighbourhood.
The shooter is still missing and a probe is on to locate him.
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