New Delhi: Delhi’s Rohini Court has convicted six accused persons, including model Angel Gupta, for conspiracy and murder of a government school teacher in the Bawana area in 2018. The court has convicted the husband of the deceased, who was in a relationship with Angel Gupta. Husband of the deceased, Angel Gupta and her father had hatched a conspiracy and hired two contract killers who shot the deceased Sunita.
Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Dhirendra Rana has convicted six accused persons, including Manjeet Sehrawat, husband of the deceased, and his girlfriend Angel Gupta, for the offence of conspiracy to murder, murder of Sunita, a School teacher.
“Accused persons, namely Manjeet Sehrawat, Angel Gupta, Dharmender, Deepak, Vishal, and Shehzad, stand convicted for committing offences under sections 120-B and 302 read with section 120-B IPC,” ASJ Rana ordered on April 28.
Additionally, accused Shehzad Saifi and Vishal alias Johny were convicted for committing offences under section 25/27 Arms Act and accused Dharmender was additionally convicted for committing an offence under section 25 Arms Act.
While convicting the accused persons, the court held that the criminal conspiracy was hatched by accused Manjeet Sehrawat, Angel Gupta and Rajeev Sethi alias Gupta.
Accused Deepak introduced accused Dharmender in the conspiracy, who arranged the shooters, namely accused Vishal and Shehzad.
“The conspiracy is duly proved beyond reasonable doubt on the basis of bank transactions, mobile locations, CCTV footage, FSL reports, highly improbable human conduct, recovery of cars, motorcycles and weapons,” the court said in the judgement dated April 28.
The court further said, “All the accused persons actively participated while pursuing the criminal conspiracy. The weapons recovered from the accused Shehzad and Vishal were found to have been used in the murder of the deceased, and the cause of death is found to be injuries suffered by the deceased due to gunshot injuries.”
The case of Rajeev Gupta alias Sethi was segregated by the court on March 26, 2025. He was absconding for a long time. When he was arrested, the trial was at the stage of final arguements.
An FIR was registered at the Bawana Police Station on October 29, 2018.