Was special cell stalking gangster Nadir Shah before and during his murder in Greater Kailash-1 last Sept? | Delhi News

NEW DELHI: Gangster-turned businessman Nadir Shah was gunned down in full public view outdoors a health club in GK-I last September. The special cell of Delhi Police investigated the case. However, some startling details emerged because the probe proceeded, making the case murkier.
It was revealed that two officers from the counterintelligence unit of the special cell met Nadir Shah in the primary week of September, days before he was killed. Interestingly, two senior officers of the special cell — DCP Pratiksha Godara and ACP Hriday Bhushan — have been current near the health club only a day before the murder, sources mentioned.

What could seem like “coincidences” didn’t finish right here. Just a few males from special cell have been contained in the health club on the time of the murder and have been caught on CCTV at the same time as one other special cell group was 50m away.
GK police not allowed to probe Nadir Shah case
With so many Special Cell cops — supposedly among the many greatest in Delhi Police — standing in the neighborhood of the health club, two petty criminals managed to face in E block for over half-hour with weapons and ultimately gunned down Shah in full public view. They then escaped with ease.

Interestingly, the Greater Kailash police from South district, which ought to have ideally probed a murder in its jurisdiction, was saved at bay from the start and the special cell was requested to take up the investigation. When questioned, Delhi Police argued that the assembly of counterintelligence officers with Nadir Shah before the murder was for an additional case and that the DCP and ACP have been visiting the world in one other case pertaining to a safety menace to a “protected” entity.
When requested why the Special Cell was allowed to research the case when it was a transparent case of battle of curiosity, Delhi Police argued that the group which developed intelligence pertaining to the menace to the “protected” particular person was greatest suited to research the murder of Nadir Shah. Two former police commissioners and a retired senior officer of the unit mentioned that given the developments, Shah’s killing ought to have been ideally probed by the Crime Branch if not the native police.
Many of the cops who figured in these cases have been quietly transferred out of the cell on Thursday. Twenty inspectors and 23 sub-inspectors featured in the listing of outgoing cops from the cell. Delhi Police responded to TOI’s queries in this regard. TOI: Two officers from the counter-intelligence unit instantly beneath the management of Manishi Chandra, OSD to the police commissioner, met Nadir Shah before the murder. Why?
Delhi Police: The CI Unit arrested an accused in a delicate investigation. Based on the revelations made by the mentioned arrested and chargesheeted accused, personnel of the CI unit met Nadir Shah (since deceased) to confirm sure details pertaining to the mentioned investigation in the primary week of Sept 2024. This was completely unrelated to the investigation carried out by the New Delhi Range put up the murder of Nadir Shah, which came about at a later level of time.
(When TOI requested a senior Special Cell officer if this case was associated to former intelligence officer Vikash Yadav, he mentioned he wouldn’t touch upon a delicate case. Yadav’s case was investigated by the counter-intelligence unit round a yr before Shah’s murder.)
TOI: Besides a couple of members of the cell contained in the health club who have been caught on CCTV too, there was one other group close to the health club which claims to have chased the shooters. How was a second group there and why did the murder nonetheless occur?
Delhi Police: It is appropriate that two personnel from NDR (New Delhi Range) have been current on the health club owing to their private rapport with the sufferer. Regarding the presence of the so-called ‘second team’, i.e., different personnel from NDR, it’s true that they have been current in the world, primarily based on leads generated by technical and human surveillance; nonetheless, no enter pertaining to express location was out there until that time of time.
When requested why a DCP and ACP have been in the world only a day before the murder, extra commissioner (Special Cell) Pramod Kushwaha mentioned: “The said officers were working on an operation wherein a protected person of Uttar Pradesh was understood to be a target. Since suspect tele-selectors were found to be active in the areas of Jamia and GK-1, the officers had been visiting these areas in an attempt to identify probable locations/CCTV trails which could be of assistance in the operation.” Multiple officers from the special cell, nonetheless, rubbished this declare, saying this stuff are, if in any respect, routinely carried out by junior stage cops.
“It is categorically denied that anyone from the operational team, including the above-said officers, visited the gym operated by deceased Nadir Shah at any point of time before the unfortunate incident happened. This is particularly relevant because there was no information/input, of any kind, regarding the said gym with the operational team,” Kushwaha mentioned. Multiple sources throughout the cell, nonetheless, mentioned that there was proof to show that there was prior details about the case.
On experiences that two special cell officers met the shooters in a resort in Paharganj before the murder, Kushwaha mentioned: “It is untrue and does not relate to any of the activities undertaken by the operational team involved in the operation/subsequent investigation of the murder of Nadir Shah.” “The investigation was carried out on merits and a charge-sheet in the matter was submitted before the court,” mentioned the police.