In a new twist to the murder of Rajbir Singh, police on Sunday claimed that the revolver used by property agent Vijay Bhardwaj to kill the Delhi police 'encounter specialist' belonged to an additional Superintendent of Police in Hisar.
The gun allegedly used by Bhardwaj to kill Singh originally belonged to Additional SP, Hisar, Ashok Sohran, Gurgaon Commissioner of Police Mohinder Lal told media persons in Gurgaon.
Sohran has claimed that he had lost the weapon during a police operation.
He said the same revolver had reached Bharadwaj, which he used for killing Singh.
The property dealer, who took the weapon from Singh three days prior to the murder, might have planned his killing during that period, he said without giving details as to how it had reached the slain ACP.
He had taken the revolver from Singh on the pretext that he needed the weapon for his protection as he was going to collect a huge amount of money he had lent to someone in Sirsa, Lal said.
He said that the Hisar Additional SP had claimed in an FIR lodged on July 21, 2007 in Bhiwani that he had lost his service revolver (No A-1031) while chasing a criminal in Dadri on the same day.
Lal said Gurgaon police stuck to the theory that Bhardwaj had murdered the ACP due to frustration borne out of humiliation by Singh.
The revolver was manufactured in 1991 and issued to Haryana police in 1993, said Lal.
"Someone had erased the gun's original number (A-1031) from the barrel and the butt and embossed a fake number (E-5286) on it to hoodwink authorities," the top Gurgaon police officer claimed.
Meanwhile, Sohran told a TV channel that he was disturbed that the weapon issued to him had been used in a murder.
"Bhardwaj killed Singh as he was apprehensive that the ACP might harm him or his family members as he had failed to return money to him," Lal said.
Bhardwaj, upset over increasing debt, had tried to commit suicide on August 9 last year in Virandavan but he could not execute his plan as his family members came to know about it, he said.
Singh was killed on March 24 at the property dealer's office where he had gone to allegedly collect money from Bharadwaj.
