Jaipur: The 64-year-old project consultant from Gurugram was shot dead when he left the Vaishali Office of the National Highway Authority (NHAI) after completing a meeting with officials on Thursday afternoon.
Rajinder Kumar Chawla curled up to the ground under a tree, almost 10 meters from the NHAI office after the shooting.
The two armed attackers then rushed to a different residential area.
According to the police, the shooting took place shortly after 14:40.
Chawla had just concluded her meeting with Nhai officials and stepped out of the office, located in D-148 behind the power sub-station when both were accused of denim Jeans and T-shirts walked to give up and fired one shot into the temple.
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The police restored the brass shell from near Chawla’s body.
Blood flowed from his head and he died at SMS Hospital without regaining awareness.
“The armed men fired a single shot close to the victim’s forehead,” said DCP (crime) Anand.
Rajinder Kumar Chawla CCTV recording that appeared after the incident showed the defendant escaped in a different direction.
Vaishali Nagar ACP Rai Singh Beniwal said the defendant might meet each other in another location after the murder.
Vaishali Nagar Police Station Sho Anil Kumar Jaimain said the crime motif could not be determined.
However, the police also suspected gunmen hired to commit murder.
“They knew Chawla’s moment would come out of the building after completing the meeting.
They have parked their vehicles elsewhere and walked to the location to execute murder,” said an officer.
A woman wearing clothes in a hut near the office claims she doesn’t see anyone.
Even though the researchers asked him carefully, he continued to say that he did not witness the murder.
The police said that Chawla came to Jaipur from Gurugram with two other colleagues.
The meeting with Nhai officials began around 12:30 and continued for a long time.
Singh’s day was crazy, an NHAI official, said that Chawla regularly visited the office for various meetings related to the NHAI project.
According to him, a project for the construction of a 14-foot bridge in Jaipur-Gurugram was underway.
Chawla was reportedly one of the consultants involved in a large project that was estimated to cost Hospital 35 Crore.
Police said that Chawla had retired in 2015 from the Department of Public Works (PWD) in Haryana.
He worked as a consultant after his retirement.
He came to Jaipur at least three times before.
Until dusk, a crime branch detective team went to the door to the door to find some clues about the suspects.
There were three houses left outside the Nhai office with their locked gate.
“We have told the victim’s wife about the incident.
The body has been transferred to the morgue.
We are waiting for a family to come so post-mortem can be done,” said an officer.