Habibganj police have arrested a miscreant for opening fire at a 35-year-old trader at 10 No. market in the afternoon on Friday.
Panic prevailed in the afternoon in the market area when the accused identified as Vinod Gogia opened fired at Nanak Das over the issue of constructing staircase between two buildings.
The victim is a builder and has sold a building to the accused Vinod but he stills owns a flat in the adjacent building.
On Friday when he came with people to construct place for air conditioner outside his flat and in the space between the two buildings the accused came and started to argue with the victim claiming he is building stair case in the space left between the two buildings.
The victim tried to convince but accused continued with verbal spate and took out his licensed gun and opened fire at the victim. The victims escaped the gun shots while the accused was caught by the locals and later handed over to the police. The accused fired once at the victim and before he could fire next shot locals grabbed him and overpowered him. Based on the complaint after the preliminary investigation the police have registered a case under section 307 of the IPC and started further investigation. The nabbed accused was produced in the court and was sent under judicial custody. The accused hold crime record and has been booked for several crimes in the past.