A group of unidentified youths on Saturday attacked a Delhi Police team escorting an undertrial to a court with pepper powder and opened fire before escaping with him near Haryana's Bahadurgarh town.
The incident happened on Saturday morning when about 8-10 youth intercepted the vehicle, in which the 27-year-old prisoner, Jitender alias Gogi, and four Delhi Police personnel, near Ganpati Dham on NH-10 in Bahadurgarh and opened fire and also attacked the policemen with pepper powder, a Haryana Police official said.
The undertrial was being taken to a Narwana court from Delhi for a hearing.
Police also retaliated, but the youths managed to escape with Jitender, he said.
"The prisoner, Jitender, escaped from police custody when he was being taken for a court hearing to Narwana from Delhi," Bahadurgarh City SHO, Vishnu Parshad said.
The accused also managed take with him a gun of one of the policemen, police said, adding that Jitender had several cases against him including around 10 of murder. A case had been registered, police said.
