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Rajbir murder case may go to CBI

CHANDIGARH/NEW DELHI: Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda announced on Friday that he had directed the Director-General of Police to refer the Delhi Police ACP Rajbir Singh’s murder case to the Central Bureau of Investigation.

Talking to media persons in Chandigarh, the Chief Minister said he had taken this decision following a telephonic request from the family of the police officer that the “murder” be got probed by the CBI.

Haryana Police officers in Gurgaon, where the murder of the much talked about Delhi Police “encounter specialist” took place under mysterious circumstances this past Monday night, have been maintaining that Rajbir Singh was murdered by property dealer Vijay Bhardwaj and there was no conspiracy angle to it. However, Rajbir’s family has voiced suspicion that the murder was a result of a deep conspiracy. They are also unhappy over the manner in which the police have been investigating the case.

The police, meanwhile, are also scrutinising the diary maintained by Bhardwaj’s sister in which the property dealer had recorded details of all his property deals. They have so far not been able to establish how Bhardwaj obtained the firearm that was used to kill Rajbir.

Bhardwaj is now in the custody of the Gurgaon police and he is being interrogated to gather details about all the property deals he had struck in the recent past.

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