Family avoids sharing information with cops

LUCKNOW: The police have not been able to make much headway in the optician murder case as latter's family is avoiding giving any statements. Four days after the incident, cops have not been able to speak to wife of Gulab Tek Chandani, owner of a spectacles shop in Kaiserbagh.
Chandani was shot dead by two or three miscreants when he was returning home from Charbagh.
Chandani was on his two-wheeler, when motorcycle-borne miscreants intercepted him near Adarsh Bal Vidya Mandir on the Station Road at 10.30pm on Sunday. The miscreants used 9 mm pistol to kill Chandani, police said. Senior police officials told TOI that whenever the family is contacted for recording statements, only one reply comes: "Not today, some other day please". As a result, the police are yet to solve the mystery whether the optician was carrying a licensed gun or not. No one has come out of Chandani's flat in the Chandra Apartment to show that the gun was very much in the house.
On the basis of this and some other factors, the police have not ruled the role of an insider in the crime. The police are also probing whether some illicit relationship was behind the crime.
Besides, the police are also probing into the properties of Tek Chandani and trying to ascertain the actual owners of the house. The need to focus on this front arose after some unconfirmed reports that Chandani had bought a property worth Rs 15 lakh for a woman relative. The police could not confirm this till the filing of the news. The police are also trying to examine the disputes which Chandani had, including one with a contractor. The police believe that the contractor owed lakhs of rupees to Chandani.