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Trader arranges own murder to make killing

TNN / Aug 9, 2005, 02:41 IST
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NEW DELHI: Murder he wrote. His own. In what can only be called a bizarre crime, an east Delhi-based businessman apparently got a friend to shoot him with his licensed revolver so that his family could claim an insurance cover of Rs 50 lakh.
Trader arranges own murder to make killing
NEW DELHI: Murder he wrote. His own. In what can only be called a bizarre crime, an east Delhi-based businessman apparently got a friend to shoot him with his licensed revolver so that his family could claim an insurance cover of Rs 50 lakh.
The murder had no motive, the murdered had. Harish, the deceased, had suffered major setbacks in his business and was buried under debt.
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Harish went for a desperate but sane option first -- he sold his property and moved to a rented house in Gagan Vihar. Apparently, things did not work out.
It was then, faced with what he perceived as an insurmountable problem, that Harish focussed on his insurance policy, worth Rs 50 lakh. According to the police, he asked Gajaraj to shoot him and thus get his family through bad times. Gajaraj used to work as a sales representative in Harish���s company around four years ago and the two men were on friendly terms.
There was another angle: the bait that Harish dangled before Gajaraj to suck him into his suicidal plan. Gajaraj told the police that he had lent Harish a sum of Rs 20,000. On July 23, Harish set his plan into action. He called Gajaraj, telling him to come and take the money. Harish chose the unoccupied home of a relative in Krishna Nagar for the meeting, but Gajaraj apparently didn���t find that odd.
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