Police said the murder was the result of a disagreement between two changes in the design and extension of time in the construction of a 14-foot-over bridge (FOB) on the Jaipur-Delhi National Highway No. 15 lakhs were given to two contract killers. Murder, Additional Police.
The accused include Karandeep The owner of E5 Infrastructure Private Limited and Gurgaon resident Sheoran (29), Panchkula resident Naveen Bisla (31), Vikas Singh (33) and Amit Nehra (26) are both residents of Gurgaon.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), West, Richa Tomar said that all the accused used to work with Sheoran. He said that the two sharpshooters who fired at NHAI advisor Rajinder Kumar Chawla are still absconding.
Police say NHAI advisor had repeatedly refused to accept bribe
Additional DCP West Ram Singh told that Sheoran had also arranged the weapon. Sheoran’s staff had gone from Gurgaon to Jaipur with the shooters and dropped them near Amrapali circle. When Chawla came out of the meeting to smoke a cigarette, the accused shot him, Singh said.
Police said that the company of prime accused Karandeep Sheoran has been involved in several projects across the country. “The company is located in Hisar, Haryana and its corporate office is in Gurgaon. The company had undertaken several highway and civil construction projects in different states including one in Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh and Nepal,” Singh said.
Police said the NHAI had last year shortlisted Sheoran’s company for the construction of 14 FOBs on the Gurgaon-Kotputli-Jaipur section. National Highway-8 35 crores for Rs. These FOBs were approved to be built as single span, which meant that there should be no pillars under the bridges. The construction deadline was approved to be completed by August 2021.
NHAI also engaged a private firm to oversee the pace of the project, and Chawla was recruited by the firm as its project consultant, also as the authority engineer to oversee the construction and its technical aspects. Is known. NS fudge The project soon ran into trouble due to constant delays in construction and its design. Police said Sheoran wanted amendments to the tender conditions, including extension of time as well as changing its design from single-span to double-span.eot)
Police said the murder was the result of a disagreement between two changes in the design and extension of time in the construction of a 14-foot-over bridge (FOB) on the Jaipur-Delhi National Highway No.
“The double span FOB also saves cost, so the company sought changes in the design and drawings,” Singh said.
Police said the conditional approval in the design of the FOB was given to Sheoran with the condition that the NHAI would conduct a cost comparative analysis as earlier the estimated cost of Rs 35 crore was based on single span bridges, but since the double-span construction would cost less So the officials decided to revise the construction cost.
Meanwhile, even as the project dragged on, NHAI issued a fine of Rs 3.5 crore to Sheoran. Police said the accused tried to persuade Chawla on various occasions, but he did not respond.
“For Sheoran, Rs 35 crore did not matter as his firm had done a turnover of Rs 700 crore last year. They feared that the punishment might lead to a serious prestige jeopardy,” said an official, adding that the accused had hired gunmen, who shot dead Chawla when he went to the Vaishali Nagar office of NHAI on August 26. I had come to attend a meeting.
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