Rajinder Singh Chadha will likely take over as chairman and managing director of Wave Inc after the deaths of his brothers Ponty Chadha and Hardeep Singh Chadha in a farmhouse shootout.
Any announcement will come only after the last rites of Ponty and Hardeep on Thursday. Wave Inc refused to talk for this story.
Rajinder has been a key behind-the-scenes figure at Wave Inc, while Ponty was the face of the group.
"You can call Rajinder the right-hand man of Ponty. They were very close to each other," says a friend of Ponty.
The 47-year-old Rajinder began his career in 1981 by starting a transport company to operate in Delhi and Moradabad. An Air Force School passout, Rajinder later ventured into the paper business.
The company website says Rajinder is responsible for liquor distribution and trading and the group's back-end operations.
People close to Rajinder say his office and Ponty's were next to each other in the same building. Currently, Rajinder is looking after liquor, sugar manufacturing,
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