Political leader’s brother arrested by STF in Sukhbir Khatana murder case
Hindustan TimesHaryana special task force officials on Thursday said they arrested the brother of a political leader on Wednesday night from his residence in Sohna for his alleged involvement in the murder of former Sohna marketing committee vice-chairman Sukhbir Khatana on September 1. STF IG B Satheesh Balan said that the murder was a fallout of political rivalry and the suspect, Joginder Khatana, believed that his older brother Jannayak Janta Party leader Rohtash Khatana would have won the assembly election from the Sohna seat in 2019 had Sukhbir not been politically active. “It was Joginder who instigated Chaman, the brother of the Sukhbir’s second wife, and paid him ₹25 lakh for executing the murder, while remaining behind the scenes so that it looked like personal enmity,” Balan said, adding that Chaman held grudge against Sukhbir because his sister had eloped to marry him. “Joginder also promised Chaman he would bear his legal expenses if he got arrested for the murder,” Balan said, adding gangster Papla Gujjar, who is lodged inside a prison in Gurugram, supplied his men and firearms to Chaman for the murder.