Property dealer, 2 alleged contract killarrested

A 33-year-old property dealer and two alleged contract killers, which he had hired to settle financial matters and intimidate other businessmen, have been arrested by the Crime Branch of Delhi Police.
According to police, the main accused was wanted in several other crimes including an alleged rape and bank frauds amounting to the tune of Rs 16 crore which is currently being probed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
"The businessman and his hired shooters were involved in a case of firing on the two men, Sanjay Mehta in Krishna Nagar and Sandeep Kheda of Ghaziabad (UP). These two cases of attempt to murder have been worked out with these arrests," said Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Ravindra Yadav.

The accused have been identified as businessman Nitin Arora (33) and the hired shooters Dhanesh alias Kallu (26) and Muninder Chauhan alias Sonu (34). They were arrested by police yesterday.
"It was further discovered that Arora was also wanted in a case of rape registered on March 21 at Jagat Puri and he is involved in a case of cheating in which he has duped many banks to the tune of Rs 16 crore, which is pending investigation with CBI," he added.
The first attack was carried out in October last year, when Sanjay Mehta was sitting in his office of Jai Sai Properties in Krishna Nagar. One person came and inquired about the properties available on rent in the area. When he told that he doesn't deal in renting out properties, the person whipped out a pistol and fired upon him. He sustained bullet injury in stomach but survived, police said.

"We had received a tip off about the movement of Nitin Arora, Dhanesh alias Kallu and Muninder Chauhan following which they were apprehended. On interrogation, Nitin Arora disclosed that he was running his business of garment trading in Gandhi Nagar along with his father," said Yadav.

Then he started business of real estate with Sanjay Mehta and Ashok Arora. They were involved in sale and purchase of the property and also in real estate development. To raise funds, in the year 2010-2011, Nitin Arora got sanctioned total loan of Rs 16 crore on his two properties from several banks.
In 2013, one of the banks came to know about his fraud of triple finance and the matter was reported to CBI by the bank on which a case was registered in 2013 and same is pending investigation.

In June 2014, differences developed between Nitin Arora and Sanjay Mehta on the financial matters and their relationship took an ugly turn. Nitin Arora was also involved in real estate business of the properties of Ghaziabad.
His other victim, Sandeep Kheda is a cloth merchant by profession in Gandhi Nagar. Nitin used to get forged documents prepared by him. He was well aware of the malpractices deployed by Nitin Arora in the trade. He used to malign the image of Nitin Arora by telling his activities in open market due to which he was suffering losses.
"Someone sent an email to all banks and CBI, mentioning complete details of frauds of Nitin Arora claiming to be whistleblower, and Nitin suspected that Sandeep Kheda was behind the act of sending these emails too. For getting the loan amounts cleared, many bank officials were frequently visiting his office and residence. Nitin Arora employed two bouncers for his home and office," said Yadav.

He discussed these issues with his bouncer Babloo and they hatched a criminal conspiracy to intimidate Sandeep Kheda and Sanjay Mehta. He paid the money to Babloo who hired separate set of contract killers.
In September, they fired on Sandeep Kheda's car in which the driver sustained gunshot injuries. In October an attack was carried out on Sanjay Mehta and the contract was given through Babloo.
Babloo then demanded Rs 20 lakh this time while Nitin paid only 2 lakh as advance. Later, Nitin Arora changed his mind about paying remaining contract money and also removed Babloo as his employee.

Later, when the contract killers started demanding the remaining money and Nitin kept evading his calls, one of them sent an SMS to him demanding payhe remaining amount, on which Nitin Arora got registered a case of extortion without disclosing the facts against unknown persons.