Mumbai: Mole who trapped gangster in fake encounter killed

Former model Divya Pahuja 27 who was arrested along with her mother Soniya in 2016 by the Mumbai police in connection with the encounter of gangster Sandeep Gadoli was allegedly killed in a hotel room in Gurugram on January 2 The walls of the room were bloodstained but the body was nowhere to be found After scanning CCTV footage the cops saw two men dragging Pahujarsquos remains wrapped in a piece of cloth in a hotel corridor before keeping it in a BMW which headed towards PunjabAfter remaining imprisoned for seven years in the Gadoli encounter case Pahuja was released on bail last year in June and since then she had been staying at Baldev Nagar in GurugramHotel City Point in Gurugram where the murder occurred on TuesdayAccording to the police she was killed by the man she had reportedly been dating Abhijeet Singh the owner of the hotel City Point in which she was killedThe police alleged that Singh a resident of South Extension in New Delhi spent Rs 10 lakh to dispose of her body with the help of two men seen in the CCTV footage The Haryana police have registered an FIR and detained SinghA forensics team is examining the blood stains and the DNA will be matched with that of Pahujarsquos relatives The cops are yet to disclose what murder weapon Pahujarsquos killers used to eliminate her The investigators are yet to get custody of her body which was seen being dragged by Singhrsquos accomplices inside the corridor of the hotel before it was stuffed in a BMW which is believed to be headed towards PunjabGangster Sandeep Gadoli who was gunned down by the Haryana police in Mumbai in 2016 right Mukesh Kumar ACPCopSpeakThe Station House Officer SHO of Sector 14 police station inspector Krishna Kant told midday ldquoYes this is true We have registered an FIR under Sections 302 and 201 of the Indian Penal Code Our investigations are underwayrdquoAssistant Commissioner of Police Mukesh Kumar told midday that the crime branch has been investigating the case ldquoThe investigation is at a nascent stage and it is not advisable to share any details at this point but the killer has tried to destroy the evidence and our efforts are underway to gather all pieces of itrdquo Kumar saidSources in the police department told midday that Pahuja had come to the Hotel City Point on January 2 around 4 amldquoWe have been told that on Monday Pahuja was out with Singh She reached Hotel City Point around 4 am on Tuesday with Singh and another personrdquo said the source in the Gurugram Police The investigators are yet to ascertain the motives of the alleged killer A source said ldquoIt is premature to comment on anything at presentrdquoHow matter came to lightAfter Pahuja was killed her family members tried to contact her on January 2 but her cellphone was switched offldquoHer family members knew that she was out with Abhijeet and they reached Hotel City Pointrdquo said a sourceHer relatives told the police that the cellphone was switched off at 730 am on January 2 and since then she had been incommunicado When Pahujarsquos relatives reached Hotel City Point and demanded that they see the establishmentrsquos CCTV footage the owner did not cooperate with the familySmelling a rat the family approached the Sector 14 police station and narrated the incident Subsequently a police team visited the hotelSources told midday that the deceased was in room no 111 When the cops examined CCTV footage of the hotel the two men were seen dragging a body wrapped in clothes at 104427ldquoWe scanned the belongings kept in the hotel room whose walls were bloodstained These include pieces of jewellery and clothes that her relatives identified as Pahujarsquos Hence the hotel owner has been detained and he is being questionedrdquo said an officer at Sector 14 police station GurugramArrest in 2016Pahuja and her mother were arrested in 2016 from Delhi after Gadoli was killed in a fake encounter Pahuja was the sole eyewitness in the case and she was present in the hotel room in Andheri West on February 7 where the Haryanabased gangster was lsquoencounteredrsquo by eight cops from the Gurgaon police including two inspectors The Gurgaon police claimed that Gadoli had backfired but an investigation by the local police and the crime branch revealed that Gadoli was killed in cold blood The Mumbai police commissioner had even appointed a separate SIT to investigate the caseThe death of GadoliAfter evading the cops for years Gurgaon gangster Gadoli was finally done in by a honeytrap Pahuja allegedly convinced him to get rid of his weapon leaving him defenceless against the Haryana cops who shot him down Gadolirsquos sister Sudesh Kataria had said that her brother used to keep a small firearm with him for safetyReportedly after making Gadoli throw away his firearm Pahuja informed her mother who then relayed this information to the Haryana police teamShe had come into contact with Gadoli through his friend Manish Khurana who ran the hotel where she worked Reportedly the police had instructed Divya as well as Manish to ensure that Gadoli was without his weapon at the time of his lsquoencounterrsquo in Mumbai