After acquittal, businessman Nitin Shah blames Delhi top cop for framing him in murder
New Delhi: Soon after being acquitted in a murder case by the apex court, Mumbai-based businessman Nitin Shah blamed a former police commissioner and a Delhi businessman for framing him in a cold-blooded murder.
Industrialist Nitin Shah and underworld don Babloo Srivastav were acquitted in the sensational Lalit Suneja murder case by the Supreme Court on Friday. Lalit Suneja, a Delhi businessman was murdered in 1992 in the national capital by unknown assailants. Later Nitin shah and Babloo were named in the gruesome killing.
After being acquitted by the apex court, Nitin Shah told India Samvad from Mumbai on the phone that he was framed in the case by police at behest of lobby headed by Chandraswami. “One of my rivals in business, Vivek Nagpal, later on pursued the case and even after I was acquitted by the High Court got me involved in court proceedings. Nagpal influenced the prosecutors through a police commissioner of Delhi,” alleged Nitin shah. The rivalry between Nagpal and Shah continued for years over the high-security number plates business.
Vivek Nagpal was in the news recently after former IPL commissioner Lalit Modi revealed his connections with top politicians and bureaucrats of the country.
Supreme Court after hearing the final arguments said that police could not gather strong evidence to link Nitin shah with the assailants. Justice Pinaki Ghosh and Justice RK Agarwal said that innocent man should not be punished.
Earlier the Delhi High Court had acquitted underworld don Babloo Srivastava and Nitin Gunwant Shah, a Mumbai-based businessman, in Lalit Suneja murder case.
India Samvad tried to contact controversial businessman Vivek Nagpal to know his side of the version on allegations levelled by his business rival, but he did not pick up the phone.
In July 2006, a Delhi Court had sentenced Babloo and Shah to life imprisonment for killing Suneja, a Delhi-based businessman, in 1992.
Babloo is presently launched in Tihar jail while Shah is out on bail.
Reversing the trial court judgement, a Division Bench of Justice RS Sodhi and Justice PK Bhasin acquitted Babloo and Shah saying that there is nothing on record to establish that two of them had any link in the murder case.
Terming the trial court judgement as erroneous, the Bench said the trial judge had passed the order basing on assumptions that Babloo and Shah are guilty for the murder of Suneja.
Rejecting the testimony of prosecution witness Hanuman Dan, the court said, “The testimony of PW 15 (Dan) could not be relied upon as he has no knowledge about the meeting held between Babloo and Suneja.”
The court also ordered that Babloo be released if there was no case pending against him.
*Following is the chronology of events in the 1992 murder case of Delhi-based businessman Lalit Suneja, in which underworld don, Babloo Srivastava and Nitin Shah was on Thursday acquitted by the Delhi High Court:
August 2, 1992: Lalit Suneja, who was having some financial disputes with one of the accused Shah, is shot dead allegedly at the behest of Srivastava in east Delhi.
August 4, 1992: Police arrest two co-accused namely, Manish Dixit and Manjeet Singh, in connection with the case who later confessed their complicity in the offence and named Srivastava as a key conspirator.
April 1995: The CBI gets the red corner notice issued against Srivastava who, after fleeing from the country, was wanted in four cases including the Suneja murder case.
April 21, 1995: Following the red corner notice, Srivastava is nabbed by the Interpol in Singapore and extradited to India.
September 1, 1995: The probe agency brings Srivastava to India to face the trial.
December 20, 1995: Police file the charge sheet against five persons, Srivastava, Manjeet Singh, Virendra Pant, Nitin Shah and Manish Dixit, under section 302 (murder), 120-B (criminal conspiracy) and 34 (common intention) of the IPC.
July 3, 2006: Additional Sessions Judge Rajinder Kumar convicts Srivastava and Shah for conspiring to kill Suneja. However, the court acquits accused Manjeet Singh.
July 10, 2006: Srivastava and Shah file appeal in the Delhi High Court against their conviction.
January 23, 2007: HC begins hearing in the appeal.
January 31, 2007: HC reserves its verdict in the case.
February 22, 2007: HC acquits Srivastava and Shah, overturning the trial court judgement.
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