Panic prevailed in the Tulsi Nagar area of TT Nagar after miscreants opened six rounds of fires killing a 32-year-old man and injuring his friend late on Friday night.
The Additional Superint-endent of Police Zone 1 Dilip Singh Tomar told that the main accused Rajesh alias Babbu Upadhyay was nabbed by the police few hours after the attack when he was trying to the escape while the accomplice is still at large.
According to the police, at around 11 pm when journalist Adesh Singh Bhadoria was at a photocopy shop at second number bus stop, two miscreants reached there on a motorbike and opened fire at Adesh and Sunil Kane alias Sunny who is the owner of the shop. In a bid to save Adesh, Sunny came in the way and was shot in the stomach while another bullet hit Adesh in his left arm. After committing the crime, the assailants fled the scene.
The victims were rushed to Narmada hospital where Sunny died within few hours, while Adesh who sustained bullet injury in his left arm, is reportedly stable. After the preliminary investigation the body was sent for the post-mortem.
The police have registered a case under sections 302, 307 and 34 of the IPC and have started further investigation. The police have recovered three live cartilages from the spot.
The police told that when Sunny and Adesh were in their car at second number bus stop, the accused Rajesh Upadhyay along with an accomplice came on a motorbike and told them that they are bullying the locals and open fired.