By Kunal Rao

Delhi HC has granted interim protection from arrest to Jagnoor Aneja, son of one of the two businessman brothers, both of whom had died in a violent fight over a parking space in Model Town area in April this year.

Justice Najmi Waziri said that Aneja will not be arrested till the next date of hearing after his counsel assured the court that he (Aneja) would join the investigations as per law on all dates.

“In the circumstances, till the next date of hearing, the petitioner shall not be arrested,” the judge said in its order.

The court was hearing a plea by Aneja seeking anticipatory bail after the trial court had rejected his application in the case where his father Gurjeet Aneja and his uncle Jaspal Aneja, both brothers, were killed on April 27 in a long standing family dispute over a parking space.

Estranged brothers Jaspal Singh and Gurjeet Singh, who had real estate and money lending businesses and also ran eateries, lived with their families on separate floors of a large, three-storey bungalow outside which the deaths took place.

The parking row between two businessman brothers had led to the death of both and the wife of the elder sibling in North Delhi’s Model Town. The younger brother’s son, Jagroor, was injured in the incident and two of his security guards were arrested for the killing of the elder brother and his wife.

According to the police, Jagroor had accompanied the two security guards and his father Gurjeet when the scuffle had broken out. The police also alleged that the trio had initiated the incident by abusing Jaspal and breaking his car with hockey and sticks.

An FIR was registered against him under section 302 (murder) and provisions of the Arms Act following which he was seeking anticipatory bail in the case.  A chargesheet has been filed in the case and a supplementary chargesheet might be filed.

The matter will now be next heard on Nov 13.

—India Legal Bureau