The police are still groping in dark to catch the miscreants who had killed a police officer and shot at three other persons on Tuesday night.
In spite of intensive checking in the city the miscreants could commit such a serious crime and the police remained ignorant.
Meanwhile, SSP Gwalior Santosh Singh on Wednesday declared rewards for giving intimation of those miscreants who had committed the serious crimes in Bahodapur and Padav police station areas.
In Bahodapur, the miscreants killed an Assistant Sub Inspector (ASI) RK Gautam and took away his service revolver. The assailants also created terror for about 40 minute.
The unidentified miscreants in an inebriated condition ran amok and shot dead the police officer and injured three others.
Inspector General (IG) Adarsh Katiyar said that the accused started their shooting spree from a general store last night when the shop owner, Anup Goyal, asked them money for cigarettes at Vinay Nagar under Bahoripura police station area,.
Katiyar said that the assailants also shot and injured one SS Chouhan, who came to the rescue of Goyal. Goyal sustained bullet injury on his chest while Chouhan suffered a wound to his arm.
Thereafter, the accused stormed into a police post housed in an ashram and after an altercation, fired four rounds at ASI RK Gautam. Gautam died at the spot. He sustained injuries in chest and face, the IG said.
Thereafter, miscreants fled away with Gautam’s service revolver, he added. After assaulting the policeman, the duo went to a medical store - Satya Sai Baba and asked for a cough syrup with high alcohol content from two Robin and Himanshu - both brothers looking after the shop.
While the two were looking for the syrup, angry over the delay, the miscreants shot and injured Robin, the IG said, adding, soon after the attack police encircled the city. It is suspected that the accused were locals as they instead of using the main thoroughfares used narrow lanes to escape. The accused were high on drugs and in need for more intoxicants, they went on the shooting spree, he said.