Cloth merchant shot dead for a bag with no cash

A cloth merchant was shot dead by two motorcycle-borne men on Friday night. The assailants fled after snatching his bag which happened to contain no cash.

They also shot at a man who tried to intervene in the robbery bid in outer Delhi’s Adarsh Nagar.

However, the bullet went past him, breaking the window of his car. He sustained minor injuries from broken glass, the police said.

The bag carried by the merchant Vijay Kumar Wadhwa (55), contained some documents and his shop’s keys, said the police.

“The assailants apparently wanted to loot the bag thinking it contained some cash,” said a police officer. Wadhwa was returning home on his scooter at 10.30 pm after closing his shop located in Jehangirpuri’s B block.

“Wadhwa had reached near Majlis Park when two bike-borne men stopped him and tried snatching his bag. When Wadhwa resisted, he was shot in the head,” said a police officer.

The other man, Sidharth Jain, was standing near the spot. “He tried to intervene by shouting at the killers. In return, he was also shot at. However, he survived as the bullet missed the target,” the officer added.

Later, a police team reached the spot and took the injured to a nearby hospital.
Wadhwa was pronounced brought dead while Jain was given medical treatment and was later discharged from the hospital.

Wadhwa hailed from Punjab’s Moga and had been living in Keval Park with his wife, son and daughter-in-law in a rented house.

Police are scanning CCTV footage from the area and trying to identify the killers.
DH News Service