The Crime Branch of Delhi Police has arrested two men for allegedly shooting at a junior resident doctor of Delhi’s Rao Tula Ram Memorial (RTRM) hospital recently.
The accused have been identified as Dinesh (21) and Nikhil (22), both residents of Jhajjar district in Haryana. Earlier, on February 7, unidentified assailants shot at 26-year-old Hemant near the hospital around 8 PM.
The assailants who had already gained entry into the victim’s car, threatened the doctor with a pistol after he entered the vehicle. Hemant was then pushed out of his car and the accused shot at him. One of the bullets hit Hemant on his face, the police said.
The police had earlier said while fleeing with the vehicle, the accused had rammed the car into the hospital gates that had punctured the tyres. The vehicle had then crashed outside the facility. The accused, however, had managed to flee.
According to Monika Bhardwaj, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Crime Branch, on Wednesday, after receiving specific inputs, a police team apprehended both the accused.
“Dinesh told the police that that he was a 35 per cent shareholder of a wine shop back in his village along with a person named Lalit and had suffered losses. He then bought a car and started supplying illicit liquor in Delhi and NCR,” said the DCP.
“In September, he was nabbed by the police here while supplying liquor in his car which was also seized. Dinesh along with Nikhil then hatched a plan to rob a car so that they can place a fake number plate and supply illicit liquor in it,” said the DCP.