<![CDATA[Faridabad: The Faridabad Police arrested an ex-employee of Tata Steel Processing and Distribution Ltd. (TSPDL) on 10 November, a day after a Senior Manager at the Faridabad office of TSPDL was shot dead. The police said the accused was identified as Vishwash Pandey and the victim has been identified as Arindam Pal aged 35. The accused, Vishwash is from Uttar Pradesh and the court has remanded him to a three-day police custody, the police said. From investigation it has been revealed that Vishwash was planning to target three more employees of TSPDL. He purchased the pistol and 25 cartridges from Uttar Pradesh for Rs.90, 000. Before committing the crime the accused fired two shots in a park on Diwali to practice. Vishwash had got a job in a multinational company in Singapore and was scheduled to leave on Thursday, the police said. During interrogation Vishwash told the police that he held a resentment against the victim and three others as they had allegedly hatched a conspiracy to dismiss him from his job. He was sacked from his job in August 2018 for indiscipline and misbehavior, based on Pal’s report. On November 9 Vishwash entered the office premises from the main gate at around 1 p.m. and left from the rear gate after committing the murder. As the accused was a former employee he managed to make a friendly entry to the company’s premises and went straight to the Senior Manager’s cabin. He shot Pal five times after a brief argument. Pal’s family said that the accused had sent emails threatening to kill him. For the past one month, the family claimed Pal had to leave his car in office and return home in a cab after he came to know that Vishwash was outside his office premises. Faridabad Police spokesperson Mr. Sube Singh said Pal’s family never informed the police about the alleged threats. Mr. Singh added that the involvement of more people in the murder has not yet been ruled out. ]]>
