Did bikers rehearse chase for a week?

In the week before Dey's murder, two Yamaha bikes were seen regularly speeding through the area in Powai where shootout happened; cops trying to locate them

In the week before Dey's murder, two Yamaha bikes were seen regularly speeding through the area in Powai where shootout happened; cops trying to locate them

After sources informed the police of having seen two bikes, racing through the spot in Powai where J Dey was shot dead, for four or five days in succession right before his murder last Saturday, the Mumbai Crime Branch are trying to find the bikers for questioning them.u00a0


Pre-planned: Two Yamaha bikes were seen speeding on a daily basis
near D-Mart, the location where the crime occured. Representation pic

Police investigations revealed that two Yamaha bikes were seen on a daily basis speeding around the spot near D Mart in Powai where the crime took place. According to witnesses, the bikes, each with two riders, were seen several times racing on the street in the days before the shootout, but were never spotted after that.

Practising fleeing?
Sources said it seemed as if the bikers were practising running away from the place. Though police have not been able to glean any information about the bikers' identities, they have been trying to locate them for interrogation.u00a0 Police officials said that though it would not be appropriate to say that the bikers, who gave the impression that they were reconnoitering the place, killed Dey, they would investigate into the matter nonetheless.

"We cannot leave any angles uninvestigated. We are trying to trace the two Yamaha bikes with the four bikers so we can question them regarding the racing in the area in the days before the murder," a police official said.u00a0
u00a0The police got the information pertaining to the bikers from sources in the locality. They did not think that
the bikers were up to anything, but informed the police after the murder, cops said.u00a0

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