E-Kantipur

KATHMANDU, FEB 15 - In a stark revelation, the masterminds behind the murder of media entrepreneur Jamim Shah understandably used Nepal Police personnel in the incident. The police are set to publicise the identification of those involved in the muder along with their pictures amid a press conference on Monday afternoon.

It has been revealed that a group that arrived in the capital about one and a half months ago rented a house belonging to former Armed Police Force (APF) Deputy Inspector General Gyanendra Rai in Shantinagar, Kathmandu and sketched out Shah’s murder plan. Immediately after smelling rat about the group, the police recorded the statement of Rai’s family.

According to sources, police have detained one Sub-Inspector for his alleged involvement in the murder and have been interrogating him on daily basis. He is confined at Metropolitan Commissioner’s Office. It has also been learnt that the detained Sub-Inspector has admitted leaking the security information, lured by substantial financial gains.

However, the involvement of the ex-DIG Rai in the incident is still under investigation, police said.

Meanwhile, police officers investigating Shah’s murder have tracked the details of the murder plot and identified the shooter, motorcycle rider and other accomplices.

According to one of the officers involved in the investigation, the shooter has been identified as an Indian national and the motorcycle rider as Nepali.

Some police officers have also suspected direct involvement of notorious Indian gangster Bablu Shrivastav, who is serving his time at Lucknow Jail in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. They believe he managed to get out the jail to come to Kathmandu to substantiate the murder plot.

However, other officers have claimed that Bablu himself was left stunned by the incident and the police have been collecting evidences with the help of Bablu.

It has also been revealed that Shah’s murder was carried out in the same manner as that of Mirja Dilsad Beg. Beg was a controversial parliamentarian and former minister who was gunned down in Chabahil of Kathmandu in 1998.

“It seems both incidents were carried out by adopting similar modus operandi,” said one high ranking investigation official adding, “the preliminary evidences and the styles adopted draw a parallel between the two murders.”

Mirza’s assassins had then rented a house of former Inspector General of Police Hem Bahadur Singh.

 

Posted on: 2010-02-19 04:07

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