In a bizarre incident, unidentified miscreants attempted to loot a medical practitioner of People’s hospital by attacking him with an arrow.
Dr Prateek Awasthi, who is pursuing MD course in the People’s Medical College was passing through the Bhanpur dumping site at around 9.30 pm, when he was attacked with an arrow.
He was going home in Minal Residency after working in the People’s hospital, on his motorcycle, when an arrow embedded in his left leg.
Soon after the incident, he fell down and the bypassers stopped to check his condition. later, he was rushed to the people’s hospital where he was operated upon and the arrow was removed from the leg.
Hospital sources said that in past couple of months four such incidents of injuring the two-wheeler riders by arrows have been reported. However, the police have not registered any case in any of the incidents so far.
Police officials claimed that such incident are quite small in nature, thus no action has been taken. However, the locals allege that this was an attempt to commit robbery in the deserted area in the region. Fortunately, other vehicles were passing by at the time of the incident on Friday night; otherwise the miscreants might have approached Dr Prateek.
Nishatpura police station in-charge Rajeev Jangle told that a complaint regarding injuring Dr Prateek has been received and the police are investigating the incident. The nearby areas are being searched and the patrolling teams have been asked to maintain strict vigil in the area, he added.