Haldiram owner gets life term for murder attempt

Haldiram owner gets life term for murder attempt

A Fast Track Court in Kolkata on Friday (January 29) has sentenced Haldiram Bhujiawala owner Prabhu Shankar Agarwal and four others to life imprisonment. Agarwal is who owns the famous Haldiram confectionary. Three days ago Agarwal and four others had been convicted in an attempt to murder case. They were convicted for shooting at a man while he was asleep in the Burrabazar area in 2005. As stated by Times Now

Agarwal based on the charges had wished to remove a tea stall blocking the entrance of a large Haldiram confectionary shop that Agarwal was about to inaugurate within the area. However the owner Satryanarayan refused to budge. Agarwal then hired Gopal Tiwari to kill Satyanarayan Thakur. But, a drunken Tiwari instead shot Thakur’s nephew Pramod on March 30, 2005. Pramod was shot from close range, but was hit in the leg and, hence, survived.

After goofing up, Tiwari left town. He was arrested in Hyderabad in May. He revealed the conspiracy, resulting in the arrest of Agarwal. The duo had planned to eliminate Thakur over a series of meetings, most of which taken place in Agarwal’s residence. Evidence of their links was gathered by checking cell phone records. Police learnt that Agarwal planned to make Tiwari his business partner by allowing him to develop some properties in Kolkata where the latter is a notorious character with several murder cases against his name.