Doc loses life over help’s love affair
20 Sep 2012 1:12 AM GMT
In a fit of rage, a desperate lover who had come to kill his girlfriend shot dead a famous cardiologist of Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in the New Rajendra Nagar area of central Delhi. The incident took place in the early hours of Wednesday.
Dr Sanjeev Dhawan, 51, was shot dead when the accused Dharmender Kumar Tandon, a retired armyman, opened firing outside the victim's house.
According to the additional commissioner of police Devesh Chandra Srivastav, the accused had a heated argument with Dhawan and his dometic help Sangeeta, who was employed 20 days back by Dhawan. Kumar wanted Sangeeta to stay with him, but she had turned down the offer.
According to the police, at about 2 am, Kumar came outside the doctor's double-storied house, carrying a licensed double barrel gun. First he knocked at the door, but when he got no response, he went upstairs and reached the second floor of the house where a lawyer Tarun Kalra lives with his family. Kumar picked up a fight with Kalra, which brought both of them on the road outside the house.
Hearing the commotion, Dr Dhawan, who was present at the first floor of the building with his son Sarthak and wife Jyoti, came out in the balcony. Kumar was shouting Sangeeta's name and fired four rounds in the air, out of which one hit the doctor. He also fired two shots on the front wall of the house, after which he fled from the spot.
Dhawan was taken to the Sir Ganga Ram hospital but he was declared dead on arrival, said a police official. The police later managed to arrest Kumar from near the Karol Bagh Metro station in the morning.
LOVE LED TO DOCTOR’S MURDER
The accused, Dharmender Kumar Tandon, 35, did not like the fact that his girlfriend was working as a domestic help. He wanted her to stay with him, a request she had turned down several times.
Before the shooting incident, in which Dhawan died, Tandon visited the house where his girlfriend Sangeeta was employed, several times. He even threatened Dhawan in Sir Ganga Ram hospital, and asked him to allow Sangeeta to live with him.
‘A night before the incident, Tandon called my father on his mobile phone and threatened him,’ said Dhawan’s son Sarthak, who is pursuing BBA from an institute in Janakpuri.
‘Tandon used to ill-treat Sangeeta and that is why she did not want to stay with him,’ said a senior police officer.
Tandon hails from Chhattisgarh. He first met Sangeeta at Kanpur railway station in Uttar Pradesh, while he was on his way to home.
At that time, he worked as a security guard in a farmhouse in Gurgaon and stayed in a rented accommodation in the Wazirabad area.
Prior to that, from 2000 -2010, he was in the army as a Nayak but after being injured by a gunshot in Jammu, he was discharged from the force.
Claiming to be a sharp shooter, he killed Dhawan while wearing his old army uniform.
Reportedly, Tandon is already married and his wife and three children live in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh.
Sangeeta, a divorcee, had come to Delhi from Kanpur in search of a job. After meeting Tandon at the railway station six months ago, she had been in constant touch with him over the phone. Later, they met in Delhi.
During the incident, Sangeeta was present on the ground floor of the house.
An enraged Tandon, carrying a double barrel gun in his hand, reached the house and started shouting for Sangeeta.
He was apparently in an inebriated condition. When Sangeeta did not open the door, he opened fire in the air.
Dhawan, who was on the first floor of the house, came out in the balcony to check what the commotion was all about. As soon as he came out, he was shot dead by Tandon, who then fled from the scene.
Police reached on spot asked Sangeeta to call Tandon and tell him that she wanted to meet him somewhere in Karol Bagh, claiming that she has also run away from house after the incident.
Tandon believed her and came to meet her at the designated Metro station, where police arrested him.
Dhawan, a doctor of repute, was popular among neighbours and patients.
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