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Chhota Shakeel Aide, Planning To Kill Tarek Fatah, Arrested In Delhi
Tarek Fatah
The Delhi Police's Special Cell has arrested gangster Chhota Shakeel's shooter and the alleged contract killer Junaid Chowdhry from Bhagirathi Vihar in New Delhi.
“Junaid was allegedly hatching a plan to kill Pakistan-born Canadian writer and liberal activist Tarek Fatah,” said Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Pramod Singh Kushwaha.
He was picked up from near Gagan Cinema in East Delhi on Wednesday night. The police claimed to have recovered a country-made pistol and four live cartridges from Junaid's possession.
Earlier, he was apprehended on 3 June 2016, along with three other contract killers, identified as Robinson, Yunus and Manish following which they were sent to police remand and interrogated for five days.
Later, they were produced in a court which sent them to judicial custody.
Their plan was initially to kill Rajan while on transit to or from the court before and after hearings, but that was later changed to attack him during his hospital visits.
Earlier, the police had found many audio clips of Chhota Shakeel from Junaid's mobile phone.
(With inputs from ANI)
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