“Lady Don” Paid Rs 4 Lakh to Get Air India Crew Member Murdered

New Delhi: Delhi Crime Branch arrested “Lady Don” Kajal Khatri on Wednesday for allegedly arranging Air India crew member Suraj Mann’s murder in January 2024 for a sum of Rs 4 lakh.

According to the police, the murder conspiracy was made in collaboration with Naveen Sharma, who was paid Rs 1.5 lakh in advance for obtaining the weapons. The rest amount was to be settled after the killing. The whole plot unravelled when Noida Police arrested Sharma.

During interrogation, Khatri revealed that she is married to Kapil Mann, a now jailed gangster. They married in 2019. Since then, Khatri is an active member of Kapil Mann’s gang. She provides financial and logistical support to the gang.

According to the police, Khatri met Kapil Mann in jail shortly before Suraj Mann’s murder, where they made the detailed plan to kill Mann.

Suraj Mann, 30, was shot at while he came out of a gym in Noida. It was suspected that his financial support to his jailed brother, gangster Parvesh Mann, was the reason for his assassination.

Kajal Khatri, operating under the alias “Lady Don,” took up the murder plan on the orders of her incarcerated partner, Kapil Mann, to avenge the murder of Kapil’s father.

Khatri had been evading arrest capture since the January killing. Police had declared a reward of Rs 25,000 on her head.