The Hindu : New Delhi News : Businessman shot dead in Mongolpuri

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Wednesday, Mar 22, 2006

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Businessman shot dead in Mongolpuri

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: A 55-year-old businessman was shot dead by two unidentified assailants in his house at Mongolpuri in North-West Delhi on Tuesday.

According to the police, the young men posing as courier boys reached the house of Sriniwas Gupta in A-Block of Deepali Apartments around 4-30 p.m. and asked for him.

Though Mr. Gupta's maid answered the door, the "delivery boys" insisted on handing over the consignment only to Mr. Gupta.

The maid then called Mr. Gupta's wife, but the duo insisted that the consignment was confidential and that they could only hand it over to Mr. Gupta.

Finally, when Mr. Gupta came out of the house to take the consignment, the duo whipped out firearms and shot at him thrice from a close range. They then escaped. Mr. Gupta was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was declared brought dead.

Preliminary investigations revealed that Mr. Gupta had a shoe-manufacturing unit in Mongolpuri. The police suspect business rivalry or personal enmity to be the reason behind the incident.

A case has been registered at the Mongolpuri police station and further investigations are on.

Held on cheating charge

One person has been arrested by the North Delhi police for allegedly cheating a woman by transferring her savings in the General Post Office to a forged account.

According to the police, Mamta Mutha, a resident of Tilak Bazar, had deposited a sum of Rs. 1.2 lakhs in the GPO at Kashmere Gate and used to get Rs. 950 per month as interest through her agent Sushil Jain. In October last year, she lost her passbook and had applied for a duplicate passbook. In February, Ms. Mutha came to know that her account had been closed and the entire money had been withdrawn. She then alerted the officials of the post office. On Monday, a person, later identified as Surender Mishra, came to withdraw Rs. 20,000 from a forged account opened in the name of Ms. Mutha. He was apprehended and subsequently handed over to the police.

Surender allegedly told the police that he had managed to lay his hands on the passbook of Ms. Mutha and with the help of his accomplice, Ravi, opened a forged account in the same woman's name. Earlier, he had withdrawn Rs. 60,000 and Rs. 40,000 on two different occasions and had come to withdraw the remaining Rs. 20,000 when he was caught.

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