Delhi Police arrests four associates of wrestler Sushil Kumar in stadium murder case

Delhi Police has made four more arrests from the Kanjhawala area of the national capital, taking the investigation of the Sagar Dhankar murder case further. According to Delhi Police, all the arrested were found to be associates of Sushil Kumar, who is already in police custody.

According to police sources, all four are active members of the Kala Asauda – Neeraj Bawana gang. The accused Bhupender, Mohit, Gulab, and Manjeet were arrested last night from the Kanjhawala area in the national capital. The special staff team of Rohini district received information that four men, involved and wanted in the murder of wrestler Sagar Dhankad, would be coming to Ghewra village to meet an associate named Kala.

“The team laid a trap near Ghewra railway crossing and the four suspects were caught after their identification through the informer. They are members of a gang led by gangsters Rajeev alias Kala Asauda and Neeraj Bawana,” said police.

They were allegedly present at Chhatrasal stadium where Sagar Dhankad was beaten to death in a brawl involving two groups. Delhi Police said that non-bailable warrants were pending against the four men who have disclosed the entire conspiracy and sequence of the events leading to Sagar Dhankad’s death.

During interrogation, police said, the four men disclosed that on the intervening night of May 4 and 5, they had gone to Chhatrasal stadium. They reached there around midnight in two vehicles. They were actively involved in the crime. On hearing police sirens, they fled the stadium, leaving behind their vehicles and weapons. The four have narrated the sequence of events leading to Dhankad’s death and details of the other persons involved in his murder.

Delhi Police said, Bhupender is a close associate of former gangster Rajeev and is involved in nine cases of robberies and murders with the gangsters till 2011. In 2011, he went to jail in a double murder case and remained in jail till Feb 2021. Another accused Mohit was also the close associate of gangster Rajeev and is previously involved in five cases whereas Manjeet met Rajeev in jail and thereafter, he started supplying weapons to his gang members. The police said that Gulab also joined Rajeev in the year 2006 and involved himself in an attempt-to-murder case. Later in 2019, he was arrested.