Gurgaon shooting: Azad taught son how to use gun?

Posted on December 19, 2007 0 Comments89

 


GURGAON: The Gurgaon school shooting case took an intriguing turn on Saturday with cops claiming that a resident of the victim’s village had told them that he had seen Azad Singh Yadav, the father of one of the accused children, teaching his son how to use a firearm.


Earlier in the day, Yadav was sent to a day in police custody by a city court. The new claim has made the cops examine if Azad was party to any criminal conspiracy for killing Abhishek Tyagi, who was a classmate of his son at Euro International in Gurgaon. Police Commissioner Mahendra Lal said this had become necessary after a resident of Badshahpur made this sensational claim.


“We are investigating all aspects of the case. We cannot ignore what this person has told us, but it has to be established whether these allegations are true. Obviously, the investigation covers this aspect of the case,” Lal said.
DCP (east) Satheesh Balan said they had to add section 120B to the charges as a result. Meanwhile, though Lal avoided making a categorical statement on whether section 120B of the IPC (punishment for criminal conspiracy) had been slapped on Yadav before producing him in court, Azad’s lawyers Narender Jain and Amit Jain, who opposed the two-day police custody plea in the court, confirmed that they would ask the court to waive the charges of criminal conspiracy against his client.


“Our client was neither at the spot of the crime, nor is there any evidence to even suggest that he conspired in the murder. These charges by cops are baseless,” they added. In court, the police sought two-day remand for Azad, arguing that they had to recover live cartridges and other evidence. However, the court granted only one day of police remand and Azad will be produced in court again on Sunday.


Balan said Azad had told them that he had 12 bullets in all, five of which were allegedly fired by his son and his classmate to kill Abhishek. “We are going to recover his other licensed arm, bullets and other evidence,” he added. Earlier in the day, Abhishek’s family members and relatives met the Police Commissioner. Abhishek’s father, Ravinder Tyagi, said they told the police that the guilty must be punished.


“We have lost our child and we don’t want anyone else to face a similar situation. Schools must be directed to install gadgets which could detect any weapon being smuggled inside,” he suggested. 

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