KATHMANDU, MAR 07 -

In yet another revelation, police said on Saturday that the killers of media entrepreneur Jamim Shah had given former Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Jagdish Chand their weapon for safekeeping after the Feb. 7 murder in Lazimpat.

The revelation came during the interrogation of Kishor Khadka ‘Bhakbhake’, whom police had arrested from Samakhusi in the Capital on Friday. It confirms police claims that the former DSP, on the run since Wednesday, is one of the key aides to Deepak Shahi ‘Babbu’, who ‘masterminded’ the murder under the direction of Indian jailbird Babloo Shrivastav. “Former DSP Chand not only remained in touch with the killers, but also extended every possible support to them,” according to a senior investigating officer.

Call details obtained by investigators have already indicated that the former police official was in constant contact with Babu even after Shah’s murder.

On his part, Khadka, who hails from Nuwakot, said he got a weapon from another key assistant of Babbu, Shree Krishna Poudel of the same district. He has already told investigators that he threw the weapon into the Bishnumati River. However, police are yet to confirm whether the killers used the weapons in question in the murder.

Also giving credence to suspicion that has been making rounds ever since the killing, Khadka confirmed that Indian criminals had not arrived in the Capital to gun down Shah. Their target was Yunus Ansari, whom police had arrested in the first week of January with his Nepali bodyguard and two Pakistani aides, for possessing fake Indian currency notes and brown sugar. 

Khadka, according to police, told investigators that Babu’s hired sharpshooters even reached the Kathmandu District Court and attempted to kill Ansari, who faces charges of running a fake Indian currency racket, in the presence of security personnel.

Posted on: 2010-03-07 04:04

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