Haldiram Bhujia's owner Prabhu Shankar Agarwal gets life sentence for attempt to murder
merisarkar news service
New Delhi, January 29, 2010
Prabhu Shankar Agarwal
A fast track court in Kolkata has awarded life sentence to the owner of famous Haldiram confectionary chain Prabhu Shankar Agarwal and four other accomplices for conspiring to kill a tea vendor in the city.
As per the local media, the judge Tapan Sen slapped section 120B and 307 of the Indian Penal Code against Agarwal and the contract killers hired by him to eliminate the tea shop owner.
The tea stall was located in the ground floor of a building that Agarwal had purchased for building a sprawling food plaza in Kolkata.
All the other tenants vacated the building but the tea vendor refused and also obtained a stay order from the high court against civil court decree that Agarwal obtained for his eviction.
In 2005, Agarwal hired a contract killer Gopal Tiwari with the help of one of his manager Arun Khandelwal. Tiwari along with two other accomplices Raja Sonkar and Manoj Thakur fired a bullet on the tea vendor on March 30, 2005.
The bullet missed the tea vendor and hit in the leg of his nephew instead. Agarwal was in London on that day. Kolkata police filed a case in this regard and arrested Gopal Tiwari two months later from Andhra Pradesh.
Agarwal was arrested in New Delhi when he returned India after four months.
