Just days after a schoolgirl in Jharkhand’s Dumka district was burnt to death by a man whose proposal she rejected, a 16-year-old girl in Delhi was shot at by a 19-year-old man after she decided to end her association with him. Police have nabbed the main accused and his two associates who had allegedly hatched the conspiracy to kill her in South Delhi’s Sangam Vihar area.
The victim’s father said that he had verbally complained to the beat constable of the area in July about the intimidating tactics of the accused Amanat Ali.
He had sent one of his associates to their house and the man had broken their window pane in a bid to frighten them. Ali who originally belongs to Meerut in Uttar Pradesh lives in Sangam Vihar. Ali, along with his two associates Bobby (24) and Pawan (19), who are also residents of Sangam Vihar had shot at the girl on the August 25 afternoon. Police said that they have also recovered two countrymade pistols along with three live cartridges and the empty cartridge of the bullet that was fired.
CCTV footage shows the three men chasing the victim when she was on her way back home from school and opening fire at her. The girl had a narrow escape as she received the bullet injury on her shoulder. The terrified girl is undergoing treatment at the hospital.
Police said that Ali came in contact with the girl on social media a couple of years ago but she stopped talking to him around six months ago. Unable to cope with her bid to cut ties with him he began nursing a grudge against her and planned to kill her. He contacted Pawan and Bobby, both school dropouts, for this purpose. Meanwhile, demanding strict action against the accused, Delhi Chief Minister, Arvind Kejriwal said in Delhi Assembly on Thursday that his Government will provide the best treatment to the victim.
According to Benita Mary Jaiker, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), South district, on August 25, police received information at Tigri police station regarding a gunshot injury to a 16-year-old girl. “The girl had been admitted to Batra Hospital and the crime spot was checked by the FSL team, where they recovered one empty fired cartridge,” said the DCP adding that during the investigation, the victim told police that she knows one of the men involved in the incident and identified him as Amanat Ali.
“After technical surveillance, police team traced the trio to Muzaffarnagar but they managed to give the police team a slip. The efforts of the police team bore fruits when they got information that two of the alleged assaulters would be coming to Delhi again,” said the DCP.
“Acting on the specific inputs, police nabbed Bobby from K Block in Sangam Vihar area, and based on the information provided by him, Pawan was also arrested from there the same day,” said the DCP. “Ali was also arrested after a tip-off was received from the Trilokpuri area,” said the DCP.
Pankaj Mishra, the victim’s father said that doctor have told him that the bullet is still inside the girl’s shoulder but she is stable and the bullet might be taken out after 6 months or so. In hushed tone, Mishra said that his daughter is so scared that she wakes up in the middle of the night and breaks down. “Ali, used to roam around in the area and he was always accompanied by two to three boys,” he said.“If I had given a written complaint, instead of telling beat constable, this incident could have been averted,” regrets Mishra.