Four held for Gondal petrol pump shooting
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Rajkot: Four contracted shooters have been arrested for the shooting incident at a petrol pump near Ribda in Gondal taluka of Rajkot district last week. The person who allegedly plotted the shooting as an intimidation tactic, Hardik Jadeja, is still at large.
Jadeja, who has a criminal history, took responsibility for the shooting in an Instagram post, saying he had hired shooters to execute this plan.
The shooting occurred after midnight on July 23, when two masked men rode up on a motorcycle and one of them began shooting at the petrol pump.
Javed Khokhar (38), a worker at the pump, later lodged a complaint against the two at Gondal Taluka police station under Sections 109 (attempted murder) and 54 (abetment) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and the Arms Act.
Police teams were later dispatched to Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh after receiving intelligence that the suspects had left the state. Four men were arrested from Mumbai and Agra — Irfan Qureshi (32), Abhishek Kumar Agrawal (28), Pranshu Kumar Agrawal (29) and Vipin Kumar Jat (26). Weapons and the getaway motorcycle were also recovered.
According to inspector Vijay Odedra of Rajkot Rural LCB, Vipin Kumar Jat did the shooting while Qureshi drove the motorcycle.
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The two other accused were involved in planning this attack.
Investigators said Hardik Jadeja met Vipin three months ago in Agra and offered him Rs 5 lakh to carry out the attack, using the latter's mother's cancer treatment as leverage. Abhishek and Pranshu, also present at the Agra hotel, were offered Rs 1 lakh each to assist.
Hardik had reportedly met Qureshi during a prior stint in Sabarmati Jail. Together with the others, they coordinated and executed the shooting.
Police records show Qureshi has 27 criminal cases in Ahmedabad, mainly burglaries, and was booked under the PASA Act four times between 2019 and 2024. Hardik Jadeja is accused in 11 cases across Rajkot, Junagadh and Surat, including murder, assault, robbery, fraud and conspiracy.
Hardik posted a video after the shooting, not only taking credit for the act but also threatening Rajdipsinh Jadeja — the grandson of former MLA Mahipatsinh Jadeja — and D V Rana alias Pintoo Khatadi.
Police say the shooting was driven by personal enmity.
According to police sources, Rajdipsinh lives next to the petrol pump and Hardik wanted to intimidate him with the shooting near his home.
The hunt for Hardik Jadeja continues. Police said they will need to interrogate him to know what motivated him to carry out the shooting.
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