Two bike-borne criminals who opened fire on a police patrol in New Ashok Nagar area on Saturday evening were arrested after alert beat constables retaliated upon them.
The duo was eventually overpowered after bullets hit one of the accused on his left leg. The injured suspect was immediately taken to a nearby hospital while his accomplice was taken to lock-up. A case has been registered at New Ashok Nagar police station in this regard.
The incident took place when constables Amit and Sandeep of New Ashok Nagar police station were patrolling near Bank of Baroda's Vasundhara Enclave branch around 5 pm on their bikes.
On reaching near Maharaja Agrasen College, they found two youths on two motorcycles and both of them appeared suspicious. When they were told to show documents, the duo opened fire. The accused have been identified as Ehsaan and Riyaz.
In retaliation constable Amit opened fire from his service revolver and fired two shots which hit Ehsaan on his left leg. Both the criminal were overpowered and Ehsaan was immediately rushed to lal Bahadur Shastri hospital. Two empty cartridges fired by the criminals were found on the spot. Two country-made weapons were also recovered. Ehsaan and Riyaz have a criminal history and have been involved in 14 and 11 cases respectively. They were released from Tihar Jail recently in February. One of the motorcycles that they had --UP16-8676-was stolen from the area under Police Station Ambedkar Nagar.