A security guard in Sterling Castles Colony under Bagh Sewania police station area, was shot at early on Thursday morning. The victim had challenged some unidentified miscreants who were attempting to break lock of a house.
According to the police, the victim Amritlal who is a security guard at Sterling Castles Colony was attacked by miscreants who failed to burgle and opened fire at him.CSP of Misrod Ateeq Ahmed Khan said that the miscreants entered the premises from the back side of the colony as there are no foot marks at the front gate.
Miscreants failed to take any valuables as before they could break the lock the security guards and neighbours were alerted which forced the accused to escape.The victim informed the other guard to call the third guard on duty as he suspected that the miscreants are more in number and it might have been risky to face them with wooden sticks but before the guard could return with other guard, one of the miscreants had jumped off the boundary wall and when the victim hit him by a wooden stick, the miscreant retaliated by opening fire at him in which he sustained a bullet injury in his chest, told CSP Khan.
The victim was hit in his chest and the bullet was in the body due to which the victim was kept under observation. The doctors have claimed that the bullet would be removed if required and it would not hurt even if it remains in the body. The victim is undergoing treatment at Hamidia hospital.
Police have recovered a steel rod which is used by miscreants to break locks. The house targeted is owned by GK Jathav who along with his family had gone to attend marriage in Indore and when he was informed by one of his neighbors the family returned.