Deepak Bharadwaj
Deepak Bhardwaj | |
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Constituency | West Delhi |
Personal details | |
Born | Sonipat, Haryana, India |
Died | 26 March 2013 Delhi |
Political party | Bahujan Samaj Party |
Children | Two |
Residence | Delhi |
Occupation | Property dealer, hotelier, school owner |
Deepak Bhardwaj (1950–2013) was an Indian politician belonging to
Early life
Bhardwaj was born Sonipat, Haryana in 1950 in a Jangid Brahmin family.[4] His family had a few acres of land. After graduating in commerce from Delhi University's School of Correspondence,[5] he became a stenographer with the Delhi government's sales tax office.[6]
Career
He started a business of automobile parts. "And I did real estate on the side," Bhardwaj said. He used to acquire agricultural land for use for industrial and farmhouses. After he shut down his automobile business in 1979 and Bhardwaj began focusing on his real estate business full-time.[6] Bhardwaj had dealings in real estate, hotels and education. He also ran a school in Dwarka and was planning to open two more schools - in Dwarka and the Dhansa respectively, both locations in West Delhi.[7] He was a resident of the Lajwanti Garden in West Delhi; Bhardwaj also owned a township project in Hardwar and a hotel on the Delhi-Gurgaon expressway. He says, real estate business is the surest way of getting rich. Indeed, Deepak Bhardwaj was the richest
Death
Bhardwaj was shot dead on 26 March 2013 by "two or three unidentified men" in his farm house, Nitesh Kunj located in Rajokri,Vasant Kunj area of New Delhi. The Delhi police say Deepak Bhardwaj was estranged from his family for the past several months and his murder was plotted because of a property dispute with his family. Mr. Bhardwaj was shot dead in his sprawling 34-acre farmhouse on NH-8 near Toll Plaza Gurgaon by two men. The alleged killers were caught on CCTV camera coming out from the farmhouse brandishing a gun and then escaping in a grey Skoda car. (Watch) They were arrested two weeks later. The Delhi Police arrested Deepak Bhardwaj's younger son and his lawyer Nitesh and Baljeet Singh Sehrawat respectively on 10 Apr 2013, in the murder case.
References
- ^ a b "BSP leader Deepak Bhardwaj, richest candidate in 2009 polls, shot dead at Delhi farmhouse" – via ndtv.com.
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- ^ "BSP leader shot dead by two men at a farmhouse in South Delhi". In.com. Archived from the original on 31 March 2013. Retrieved 26 March 2013.
- ^ a b "Deepak Bhardwaj: Assets copy". Scribd.
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- ^ "Know about Delhi's builder Deepak Bhardwaj".