Kin, staffers on police scanner

Probing the murder of BSP leader Deepak Bhardwaj, 62, the Delhi police suspects that a family member may be involved in the case. However, police officials were not ready to speak on the matter. A police source said that Deepak wanted to bequeath his property to his elder son Hitesh while his wife Ramesh Kumari wanted a big share for his younger son Nitesh. “Ramesh Kumari was angry with him and started living separately. She was questioned by the police,” said the source. There were problems and Bhardwaj was apparently not giving any money to his wife or sons, the sources said adding that Bhardwaj had allegedly asked his wife and sons to return the ownership of the school. The investigators are also suspecting role of an employee of Bhardwaj, the source further said. “The three assailants managed to go almost 500 metres inside without losing way, shot Bhardwaj and fled easily. Around 40 employees were on the 25 acre farmhouse at the time of the incident. The two personal security officers were not with Bhardwaj or in the farmhouse,” said the police official. However, the police did not confirm whether the guards or the PSOs were on their radar. There were 25 CCTVs in the farmhouse, which the official said was inadequate to cover such a big area. The official said the car used by the shooters to enter the farmhouse was a four-year-old vehicle and police teams are scanning the records in various offices of transport department. “We think the guard has noted down the number of the car wrongly. Or may be it was a fake number,” the official sa