An unidentified miscreant opened fire at the owner of an eatery near Basant Cinema on Kalimati Road under Sakchi police station area late last night.
According to information, a lone attacker fired three shots from close range on the rear of lakhindhra Mohapatra alias lucky (55) while he was about to get into his car at about 11.30 pm on Saturday night.
lucky is known for eatery lucky Egg Roll at Sakchi market and resides at Hume Pipe in Bhuiyandih under Sitaramdera police station area.
As the incident took place, the victim first drove to his house. He picked his wife Rajeswari and son Sanjay and came to a private nursing-home at Sakchi. The management of nursing-home later referred him to Tata Main Hospital as he had sustained bullet injuries.
The gun-shot victim was admitted at the Tata Main Hospital at about 1 am on Sunday. OC, Sakchi police station, Mohan Kumar Sharma confirmed about the gun-shot attack on the owner of lucky Egg Roll.
“As per our probe, a lone shooter had attacked lucky while he was about to get into the car at about 11.30 am. The victim has been admitted at the Tata Main Hospital where he has been operated upon. We will take a statement from him as his condition improves,” said Sharma.
The officer-in-charge said that as per the initial probe they suspect extortion from the eatery owner may be a reason behind the gun-shot attack, adding that they are investigating into the case.
Hospital sources revealed that all the three pellets have been taken out from the victim’s body and he is now out of danger. The victim has been shifted to High Dependency Unit of the hospital.
Sources revealed that the eatery owner had received extortion call and that too two years ago. “Ever since he got the extortion call he never used to sit at the cash counter of the eatery,” said a source in the police.
later, in the afternoon police arrested the accused of the shoot out incident Rahul Rai ( 25), a resident of Parsudih. Senior SP of East Singhbhum Anoop T Mathew said that Rai had admitted the crime. "
There was a dispute between the two - Rahul and lucky- over encroachment of a near-by shop by the latter that led to the attack. We are investigating into it," he said.
Rahul has a crime record. Earlier, in 2015 he was arrested in connection with an extortion case.