Celebratory firing: former MLA, driver taken to UP

January 07, 2019 01:52 am | Updated 01:52 am IST - New Delhi

A Delhi Police team has taken former Bihar MLA Raju Singh to Kushinagar in Uttar Pradesh to recover the blood-stained clothes of his driver which were allegedly dumped there while they were on the run after a celebratory firing incident here in which a woman was killed, an official said on Sunday.

The five-member team of officials from Fatehpur Beri police station has also taken along with them Raju Singh’s driver Hari Singh.

The 42-year-old woman, an architect, suffered critical injuries after the former MLA allegedly fired celebratory gunshots in the air during a New Year’s Eve party at his farmhouse in south Delhi’s Vasant Kunj. She died on January 3.

The victim, Archana Gupta, who was a resident of Gautam Nagar in Hauz Khas, had gone to the party along with her husband and daughter.

The former MLA, who had unsuccessfully contested the 2015 Assembly election in Bihar on a BJP ticket, and his driver Hari Singh, had fled Delhi after the incident. They were arrested after being detained on January 2 from Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh.

The police said during questioning, it emerged that the accused duo had dumped Hari Singh’s clothes somewhere in Kushinagar.

On Saturday, the police arrested the younger brother of Raju Singh for allegedly tampering with and destroying evidence.

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