Bath Castle firing case: Suspect confesses groom personally invited him to marriage

Putting rest to the claims of groom Varinder Kapoor, on whose wedding a clash between two gangs led to two deaths, that he had not invited the miscreants, a suspect named Ankur has confessed that that he had received the invitation card and a box of sweets from the groom.

The groom had personally gone to invite him for the marriage and reception at his house and the invitation card was still lying at there, Ankur told the police. “Now, the groom is lying just to save his skin,” Ankur submitted. The police said that gangster Shubham Mota was also invited by the groom.

Notably, during the clash, two guests — Vasu Chopra, Kapoor’s neighbour and childhood friend, and Neeru Chhabra, the groom’s maternal aunt — had died after receiving bullet injuries and another man, Jatinder Kumar Dabar, one of the accused named in the FIR from Ankur’s group, was injured. Dabar has been accused of using his licenced weapon in the clash.

The police have already arrested nine accused, while the main accused, gangster Shubham Mota, who is considered the key accused and has been facing about 15 criminal cases, is still at large. It is learnt that Shubham enjoys close ties with some senior politicians and was also often seen posing with them and other prominent persons of the city.

The groom has also been made an accused for inviting criminal elements.

Sources confirmed that some politicians who had been sheltering the gangsters had initially tried to approach the senior police officials in their favour. The police made it clear that the accused had killed two innocents and did not deserve any mercy. Police teams have already been conducting raids at the suspected hideouts of the accused in Punjab and other states.

Police Commissioner Swapan Sharma has been personally overseeing the investigation and has reportedly given clear instructions to the cops that accused behind the killing of two innocents would have to face the law.