The city police have arrested a person who allegedly opened fire at an assistant sub-inspector (ASI) on Wednesday night on the Gurugram-Faridabad toll road. The accused was arrested the next day and an FIR was lodged against him under various sections of the IPC at DlF Phase-I police station in Gurugram.
Police said on Wednesday night ASI Razak Khan and his team were on patrolling duty. Around 9:30 pm they saw that an Audi Q5 car was coming from the direction of Mandhi village at a very high speed and approached the Gurugram-Faridabad toll road.
The policemen signalled the car to stop and the driver of the Audi later identified as Vijender alias Billu (33), a resident of Mandhi village in Delhi stopped the car.
ASI Khan told constable Bijender to search the vehicle. The accused then starting misbehaving with the cops and took out his revolver from the car’s dashboard and fired one round at the ASI.
ASI Khan managed to evade the bullet and snatched the revolver from the accused. The accused managed to flee towards Delhi. Another ASI Amit Kumar, started searching for the accused with his team and later arrested him from his village on the basis of the car’s registration number.
“We arrested the accused the day after the incident. On Friday we had produced him in the city court where he has been sent to the 14 days judicial custody,” said sub inspector Mahender Singh of the Gurugram police.