Greater Kailash murder case | Police conduct raids at 3 locations

Jammu, May 9:   Jammu Police Thursday conducted simultaneous raids at three locations of the accused and their known associates in the Greater Kailash murder case.

Searches were conducted on court orders in the houses of Sheikh Mehmood at Channi; Purushottam Singh at Bishnah and the house of the driver of Ravinder Gupta at Gangyal.

Police said that raids were part of its “resolve to get to the roots of crime.”

“In the raids conducted so far, more than 60 documents related to land deals and sale along with several digital devices have been seized for further analysis,” police said. “It is also important to note that the driver of Ravinder Gupta has been closely associated with him for the last several years, allegedly becoming a conduit for ill-gotten gains,” it added.

Meanwhile, in a press conference during the day, members of the family of Avtar Singh, who was murdered at Greater Kailash during a scuffle over a property dispute, said that they were satisfied with the functioning of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of JKP, investigating the matter. Ex-DDC member T S Tony, who accompanied the aggrieved family during the press conference, said that the family did not want a CBI probe. “Let SIT complete its investigation,” the family said.