Rohtak: Nafe Singh Rathee, the Haryana president of Indian National Lok Dal (INLD), was shot dead in Jhajjar’s Bahadurgarh on Sunday.
The two-time MLA from Bahadurgarh from 1996-2005 was travelling with three members of his security staff in his SUV when unidentified assailants in an i-10 fired indiscriminately at his vehicle at Barahi Gate road. Sitting in the front seat, he received multiple bullet wounds.INLD spokesperson Rakesh Sihag confirmed the death of Rathee and a security person at a hospital in Bahadurgarh.
Doctors said Rathee received bullets in neck, waist and thigh. A video of the killing and the bullet-ridden SUV started doing the rounds of social media even as Jhajjar SP Arpit Jain, who reached the crime site, said that teams of CIA and STF were deployed to crack the case and the accused would be arrested soon. Empty bullet shells and other evidence were collected from the spot. The police have started scanning CCTV cameras installed on the route.
The motive remains unclear so far while sources hinted at the hand of gangster Lawerence Bishnoi and his close associate Kala Jathedi in the murder.
After Jagdish Numberdar, the son of former minister Mangeram Rathi, allegedly committed suicide on Jan 11, 2023, Rathee and his nephew Sonu were accused of harassing him. In Aug last year, the Punjab and Haryana high court sent a notice to Rathee in the suicide case.
The two-time MLA from Bahadurgarh from 1996-2005 was travelling with three members of his security staff in his SUV when unidentified assailants in an i-10 fired indiscriminately at his vehicle at Barahi Gate road. Sitting in the front seat, he received multiple bullet wounds.INLD spokesperson Rakesh Sihag confirmed the death of Rathee and a security person at a hospital in Bahadurgarh.
Doctors said Rathee received bullets in neck, waist and thigh. A video of the killing and the bullet-ridden SUV started doing the rounds of social media even as Jhajjar SP Arpit Jain, who reached the crime site, said that teams of CIA and STF were deployed to crack the case and the accused would be arrested soon. Empty bullet shells and other evidence were collected from the spot. The police have started scanning CCTV cameras installed on the route.
The motive remains unclear so far while sources hinted at the hand of gangster Lawerence Bishnoi and his close associate Kala Jathedi in the murder.
After Jagdish Numberdar, the son of former minister Mangeram Rathi, allegedly committed suicide on Jan 11, 2023, Rathee and his nephew Sonu were accused of harassing him. In Aug last year, the Punjab and Haryana high court sent a notice to Rathee in the suicide case.