India, July 25 -- A 35-year-old restaurateur, who was found shot dead late Wednesday at Kanawani Pushta Road in Indirapuram, was brought to the city by his friend and two accomplices in a pre-planned manner, officers investigating the case said on Friday.

They said that the victim, Amit Saini, 35, a resident of Sector 3 in Gurugram, was accompanied by his friend and the friend's two accomplices, who shot him dead, and the friend then called the police claiming two men on a motorbike shot the victim dead when he stepped out of the car.

"During the investigation and scanning CCTVs in Ghaziabad and Gurugram, the police found that the two absconding suspects, along with Saini and his childhood friend, boarded a Grand Vitara and arrived in G...