23-year-old boy shot dead inside Old Box Cafe in Palam Vihar

A 23-year-old boy got killed on Monday night when some armed men, who were allegedly his friends, opened indiscriminate fire on him near Palam Vihar in Gurgaon.

The deceased has been identified as Mohit Jhanghu, a college student hailing from Daultabad village, was presently residing in Gurgaon.

The incident took place at around 9 pm in the Old Box Cafe in Palam Vihar market where Mohit was accompanied by his uncle Nahar Choudhary and his friend Sakham.

“Around four to five men arrived inside the cafe and gheraoed Mohit. They started abusing him following which brawl started between one of the accused, Abhishek alis Nitu, and Mohit. Nitu then pulled out the pistol and fired three bullets at Mohit. The assailants then fled the scene. Someone called the police and Mohit was rushed to the nearby private hospital by his uncle and friend where he was declared brought dead,” informed Palam Vihar SHO, Sandeep Kumar.

“Assailants fired six rounds at Mohit. He sustained bullet injury in his head, chest and abdomen,” he further informed.

A CCTV camera, installed in the vicinity, caught the killers standing by a car outside the eating joint at 9 pm and later entering the cafe. They were seen rushing out of the cafe and fleeing in their car at 9.12 pm.

Meanwhile, police arrested four out of five accused near Sector 10A on Tuesday evening.

The accused nabbed by the police are Abhishek alias Nitu, Brijesh alias Noni, Dipankar and Bobby Dahiya. While Nitu, Bobby Dahiya and Dipankar hails from Dhanwapur village Noni lives in Gurgaon. Police are also trying to nab the fifth accused Munna, who is on the run, and sixth suspect Nitesh. All accused are under 25 years of age. An FIR has been lodged against them under sections 302 (murder), 120B (criminal conspiracy) of IPC and 25-54 and 59 of Arms Act.

Official sources said that Mohit has two cases lodged against him under Arms and ammunition act while the suspected murderer Abhishek has been jailed in the past for illegal possession of arms.

“The exact  motive of the murder has not been ascertained. Mohit and Nitu had an altercation over some issue two weeks ago, but later they resolved the issue and supposedly became friends. Probably, there was some personal enmity between them, ”ACP (crime) Rajesh Kumar said.