Vishesh Gupta murder: Prime suspect's police remand extended by another six days

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, January 4

The remaining three suspects in the Vishesh Gupta murder case are yet to be arrested but the police have secured six-day custody of prime suspect Karandeep Singh.

Earlier, the police had conducted a raid in Srinagar, where the accused escaped following the murder. But they had already escaped from there.

During investigation, the police nominated three accomplices including a Jammu and Kashmir resident Mohammad Sakib, son of a timber trader, Shelly and Gurmeet Singh of Gurdaspur. The latter two had shot Vishesh dead.

The police said following expiry of their police remand, Karandeep was produced in court on Tuesday, which extended his police custody by six days. He was arrested by the police from Gurdaspur on December 26 and sent in police custody till December 30. The court again extended his remand till January 3.

The police claimed that during interrogation of Karandeep, it was found that the accused also stayed in Uttarakhand after the crime. Karandeep sold his mobile phone to a shopkeeper after formatting the phone and deleting the entire data.

During preliminary probe, the police found that Gupta’s murder was a handiwork of ‘supari’ killers.

He was shot at by two unidentified bike-borne persons on December 11 outside his shop, when he sat in his car after closing it down. He succumbed to his injuries at a private hospital in Noida.

The police had booked Karandeep Singh of Khat Khokhar area in Gurdaspur and his unidentified accomplices at that time.

The perpetrators’ actual target was Shivam Gupta, cousin of the deceased. Shivam was engaged to a girl in Pathankot area, who allegedly had an affair with the accused Karandeep Singh. Karandeep had approached Shivam’s family and asked them to reject the marriage proposal while issuing threats. The shooters reportedly, mistook Vishesh as Shivam and shot him.