Monday, 24 JUNE 2024 | PNS | DEHRADUN
The main accused in the Raipur shootout case Ramvir Singh reportedly confessed to the police that he hid a pistol and three live cartridges at his lady friend’s house at the THDC colony in Dehradun’s Patelnagar area after the shootout incident in which one man was killed and two seriously wounded on June 16. The Dehradun senior superintendent of police Ajai Singh said that the police had received one-day police custody remand (PCR) of Ramvir on Friday. He informed that on the basis of interrogation of the accused during PCR, the police recovered a .32 bore country-made pistol and three live cartridges, used by him in the shootout, from the rented house of the accused’s lady friend Shalu Bhardwaj. He told the police during interrogation that after the shootout late on June 16, he went to Bharadwaj’s house with his accomplices Manish and Yogesh, where he hid the pistol and cartridges and fled from there with them. The SSP informed that the accused’s lady friend is the wife of former gangster Yatendra Chaudhary.. He said that the police have declared Bhardwaj wanted on charges of giving shelter to the accused after he committed a heinous crime. She had the opportunity to inform the police about the pistol and Ramvir soon after the three accused visited her but she failed to inform them as per the law. The police will nab her soon, he added. A shootout occurred at Dobhal Chowk in the Nehrugram area of Raipur on June 16 at night. A man Deepak Badola alias Ravi Badola died and two men- Subhash Chhetri and Manoj Negi sustained serious injuries in the shootout. Both are undergoing treatment at Mahant Indiresh hospital. The shootout occurred because another accused Sagar Yadav had mortgaged Badola’s car for Rs 4.25 lakh without his consent. The police have so far arrested seven accused in this case.
