A woman sub-engineer of Sehore Janpad Panchayat was shot at by two unidentified motorcycle-borne persons in daylight in Mandi area of the district headquarters on Wednesday.
According to the police, the victim Priyanka Baghel (25), a resident of Bhopal had got down from Panchvalley Express along with her co-workers Preety Rawat and Payal Thakur and was going to office on foot, when the incident took place.
As soon as the three women reached near the mosque, two persons who were already waiting for them, opened fire and fled on the bike. The incident was so abrupt that Priyanka and her colleagues could not understand anything. By the time, Priyanka fell down and her colleagues immediately called the ambulance and she was rushed to the district hospital, from where she has been shifted to lBS hospital in Bhopal.
Police said Priyanka is the daughter of police inspector Rajbahadur Baghel, who is posted in Shajapur district. She used to reach Sehore-based office everyday by Panchvalley Express. In routine, she along with her colleagues was going to office on foot, when the incident took place.
Doctors said the bullet penetrated the body from the back and exited from the stomach. However, they claimed that the condition of the victim is stable.
Sehore SP Raman Singh Sikarwar told The Pioneer that police are investigating the case and waiting for the victim to regain consciousness so that her statements could be recorded. After inspecting the scene of crime, the police have recovered the empty cartridge.