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NRI sitting in the US gave the contract in India to eliminate another NRI



VADODARA, DECEMBER 17, 2004
TNN

Navrang Brahmbhatt is suspected to be the prime conspirator in a murder case. The police said that sitting in the US he gave the contract to eliminate another NRI.

Yet, despite unravelling the conspiracy bringing him here might prove to be a daunting task. In a sensational case here, the police managed to detain planners and shooters in the NRI murder case. But the hitch is to get Navrang Brahmbhatt who gave the contract from the US. Navrang, according to the police, had a financial row with victim Manoj Patel.

To sort this out and gain financial advantage Navrang hatched the conspiracy to eliminate Patel when he visited India. Navrang asked his brother Pradeep alias Buchio to ensure that Patel was eliminated during this trip to the city. Pradeep contacted hatchet men who eventually gunned Patel down on April 4.

Pradeep and others have been arrested in the case, but officers feel that there is little that they can do about Navrang. They believe that the only opportunity could be if he came to India and they got the information. Police commissioner Sudhir Sinha said that the only evidence that the police had against Navrang was statement by other accused.

"As per the extradition treaty with US an accused can be handed over to us only if the evidence against him is admissible in courts of law of both the countries," he said. Sinha added that statements given to the police are not admissible as per the Indian law.

"Given this situation, making a case for Navrang's extradition will be difficult," Sinha said. So far the Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) has arrested six men in the case. These include Kalpesh Kachhia and Kiran Jingar to whom Pradeep had given the task of arranging for a shooter.

The shooter Freddy alias Frederick Martin Macwan and his two accomplices Sunil alias Babu alias Sanjay Sharma as well as Ikbal alias Bablu Saiyed were also arrested. The police also arrested Paresh Chauhan who was serving term here and had roped in the shooters on being contacted by Jingar.

Bablu had allegedly stolen a motorcycle near Inox multiplex. Sharma and Macwan used the vehicle to kill Patel when he slowed down at a speed-breaker on the Akota Road. It was Macwan who allegedly fired the shot.


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