Two unidentified armed assailants barged into a mobile shop in a south Delhi locality on Thursday evening and shot dead its 36-year-old owner.
Police officials said Harvinder Singh, the owner of the shop located near well number two in Katwaria Sarai was about to close his shop on Thursday when two unidentified assailants entered at around 11.55 pm and fired seven shots at him and escaped.
Singh, a resident of Bharthal village in Dwarka, owned Great India Mobile Shop in Katwaria Sarai. “Singh was maintaining his daily accounts when the assailants stepped in, fired at him and fled. Singh was rushed to the AIIMS Trauma Centre where the doctors declared him brought dead,” said a senior police official. The police said there were no eyewitness to the incident. “We are trying to establish the motive behind the murder. It looks like a case of personal rivalry. However, we can not arrive on any conclusion before the investigations are complete. We are trying to find out if he had any enmity. The local shopkeepers are being questioned to establish whether anyone spotted the assailants in the area,” the official said.
Ramesh Singh, a resident of the area said, “I was sleeping when his wife woke me up. She looked distressed and said that she had heard gunshots from the shop. I rushed down to enquire and saw Singh lying in his shop in a pool of blood. My son and some locals rushed him to the AIIMS Trauma Centre,” said Singh.
The deceased is survived by his father, wife and three children.