Jaipur police file chargesheet in Bani Park murder case

JAIPUR: Turf wars, property feuds and shifting loyalties between gangs were listed by Bani Park police as reasons behind the murder of historysheeter Ajay Yadav (42).
Police on Friday submitted chargesheet in the murder case which had shaken the city when multiple gunmen on different scooters waylaid Ajay Yadav near Soot Mill area and fired several shots at him before finishing the job with a heavy stone when their guns jammed halfway.
Yadav was killed on September 21 amidst several tea shacks humming with morning activities. Police arrested nine persons in the case and found that Ajay Yadav’s rivalry with his friend-turnedfoe Pradeep Yadav, also a history-sheeter, led to his murder.
The chargesheet states that both Ajay and Pradeep were friends between 2008 and 2016. But a series of disputes over properties had soured their partnership. Then in 2015, police booked Ajay for organising a hit on another gangster in Jawahar Nagar and their friendship turned into a bitter rivalry.
In March last year, Pradeep and his gang members attended the wedding of a gangster and uploaded their photos on social media as a show of strength and also to send a message to Ajay.
Three days after the wedding event, Ajay’s two acolytes, Himanshu Jangid and Bunty Sharma, attacked Pradeep. Pradeep was left paralysed. Pradeep held a meeting with members of his gang and decided to eliminate Ajay. The gang procured a GPS device that was fitted into Ajay’s SUV in order to track his every movement in the city. After killing Ajay, the accused fled in different directions. But when police began to raid their hideouts and shelter grounds, one of the accused, Mukesh, committed suicide.