New Delhi:
The Delhi Police, probing the murder of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Deepak Bhardwaj, today detained a man suspected to be driving the Skoda car which the killers used to escape. Mr Bhardwaj, a real estate tycoon and Delhi's richest Lok Sabha candidate in 2009, was shot dead by two men at his farmhouse on Tuesday; they escaped brandishing guns with a third accomplice driving the car.
The police had earlier detained three men in Jind in Haryana who were questioned in Delhi. They were later let off.
Police sources said even the Santro car, recovered in Jind and believed to have been the second one used by the killers to escape, turned out not to be the one they were looking for.
The white Santro was found a day after the Delhi Police recovered the grey Skoda in which Mr Bhardwaj's killers had come to his farmhouse and shot him.
Investigators had earlier hinted that the identity of two of the three suspected killers is known and they were working on establishing the third suspect's identity.
Three men drove into Mr Bhardwaj's farmhouse on Tuesday morning and shot him twice from close range after an argument. CCTV footage from the farmhouse, released by the police, shows the suspected attackers fleeing in the Skoda car.
Police sources said property disputes or business rivalry could have led to Mr Bhardwaj's murder. Investigators have questioned Mr Bhardwaj's family, from whom he was estranged of late, and guards at his sprawling farmhouse on the Delhi-Gurgaon border.