Gym owner’s murder: Case transferred to Special Cell

Two days after a gym co-owner was shot dead in South Delhi’s Greater Kailash area, the probe was handed over to the Delhi Police’s Special Cell even as one more person was arrested in this connection, officials said on Saturday.

The arrest of Mohammad Sajid, a resident of North East Delhi’s Jaffrabad, takes the number of those arrested in this case to five.

Nadir Shah (35) was shot dead by two motorcycle-borne assailants in the posh Greater Kailash area late on Thursday.

A Special Cell team had on Friday arrested Nitalesh Tiwari, Vishal Verma and Akash Yadav of Uttar Pradesh’s Azamgarh and Naveen Baliyan of Haryana’s Sonepat. Two country-made pistols and eight live rounds were seized from them.

During the investigation, the police found that the murder was executed on the instructions of Sameer Baba, a close associate of Hashim Baba.

Shah is believed to have been an associate of Rohit Chaudhary, another gangster and a rival of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang. The attackers had come on two vehicles — two on a motorcycle and two in an autorickshaw. One of them fired several rounds at Shah.

On Saturday, the five accused were produced before a city court, which sent them to police custody for five days. The police suspect that seven to eight people were involved in the murder.

Shah used to lend money to people at high interest. He also owned a business in Dubai and was said to have known to some Delhi Police officials.